About Dacryopinax elegans (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) G.W.Martin
Dacryopinax elegans is a species of jelly fungus that belongs to the family Dacrymycetaceae. In 1849, Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis first formally described this species under the name Guepinia elegans. In 1948, George Willard Martin reclassified the species and moved it to the genus Dacryopinax. The fruit bodies of Dacryopinax elegans are shaped like upside-down cups, and measure 3 to 15 millimetres (1⁄8 to 5⁄8 of an inch) across. Similar species to Dacryopinax elegans include Guepiniopsis buccina and some species from the genus Auricularia. This fungus grows from June to October in the region of the eastern United States that is west of New England.
