Cyphella digitalis is a small fungal species from the genus Cyphella, found throughout many western European wooded forests[1] This species was first described in 1805, by Lewis David de Schweinitz, which was then also backed by Johannes Baptista von Albertini in 1822.
Further identification was made in 2016 by Jan Holec, Vladimir Kunca, Martin Kříž, and Petr Zehnálek, which located Cyphella digitalis populations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic as part of a study looking into the genetic sequencing and ecology of the species.
It has a cream, beige, or darker brown coloration, sometimes with tree bark like patterns and streaking on the outside of the structures.
Appears as a thin tube clumped closely together in clusters, with each individual cup growing up to 10-15 mm in diameter.
Found mostly through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, Cyphella digitalis can be located dominantly on silver fir trees.