 The fungus , originally collected from Muskingum County , Ohio , was named Peziza occidentalis by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1832 . It was assigned its current name by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1888 . Andrew Price Morgan renamed the species Geopyxis occidentalis in 1902 because of a perceived similarity with Geopyxis hesperidea , but the name change was not adopted by subsequent authors . In 1928 , Fred Jay Seaver overturned Saccardo 's naming and applied the name Plectania to Sarcoscypha coccinea and other red cup fungi . In later taxonomic revisions , Richard P. Korf reinstated the genus name Sarcoscypha . 
