Cookeina speciosa is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae.

Cookeina speciosa is the most common species of its genus.

The fungus was originally described in 1822 by Elias Magnus Fries, as Peziza speciosa.

[4] Richard William George Dennis transferred it to the genus Cookeina in 1994.

[5] The genus Cookeina is named after Mordecai Cubitt Cooke[6]