Cup

cup (noun, pl. cups) – shaped like a cup, i.e., a small drinking bowl; in the genus Cladonia typically used to describe the uppermost part of goblet-shaped podetia; in the strict sense cups have a closed bottom (like a wine-glass), whereas the term scyphus is instead used for a podetium that apically broadens into a bottom-less, open funnel.

in the strict sense cups have a closed bottom (like a wine-glass) and the term scyphus is then often used to refer more accurately to these cups; some podetia instead apically broaden into a bottom-less, open funnel, which is not considered a scyphus.

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