The Brown Goblet is a gilled mushroom that can be found on dead logs with moss spring through fall. It has a "belly-button" shaped cap that starts blackish or gray-brown and fades with age and is 0.5-2 inches (1.5-5 cm) wide. Its gills run down the stem (decurrent) and are light-colored. It has white spores.

August 8th, 2023 Field Characteristics:**

• Growing gregariously on American Basswood log in a low moist woodland draw.
• Cap grayish with a central depression and dark margin.
• Lamellae shallow and decurrent.
• The stipe is semi-flexible with white basal mycelium.