Found in a pool of standing water on a well-rotted piece of bark under cottonwood trees.
Tiny orange cups .5 cm and smaller. Top surface scarlet. Margins lined with dark hairs. Outside of cup fuzzy with shorter hairs, of which some are paler (brown to golden--maybe older). No stem.
What I assumed to be spores were elliptical (see photos). See also paraphyses (which are a little wider at the tip) holding spores. See also hairs, which look brownish or golden in photos.
Torpedo shaped head,
Black to brown with cylindrical stipe,
No hairs,
Growing next to trail under sword fern,
Near redwood
Growing scattered in Sequoia sempervirens and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest with Polystichum munitum and Toxicodendron diversilobum understory. Head dark brownish black, slippery but not sticky, sparkly in the sunlight. Stipe more chocolatey or sepia brown, finely ornamented with tiny studs.