Calocera cornea
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi
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Order: | Dacrymycetales
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Family: | Dacrymycetaceae
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Genus: | |
Species: | C. cornea
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Binomial name | |
Calocera cornea | |
Synonyms | |
Clavaria cornea Batsch (1783) |
Calocera cornea![]() | |
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![]() | smooth hymenium |
![]() | no distinct cap |
![]() | hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable |
![]() | stipe is bare |
![]() | spore print is white |
![]() | ecology is saprotrophic |
![]() | edibility: inedible |
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Calocera cornea is a jelly fungus that grows on decaying wood.[1] It is a member of the Dacrymycetales, an order of fungi characterized by their unique "tuning fork" basidia.
Its yellow, finger-like, tapering basidiocarps are somewhat gelatinous in texture. In typical specimens the basidiocarps become up to 3 mm in diameter, and 2 cm in height. The hymenium covers the sides of the basidiocarps, each basidium producing and forcibly discharging only two basidiospores.
It is inedible.[2] Calocera viscosa is related.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
- ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
Further reading[]
- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
- McNabb R.F.R. 1965a. Taxonomic studies in the Dacrymycetaceae II. Calocera (Fries) Fries. New Zealand J. Bot. 3: 31–58.
External links[]
- Friday Fellow: Club-like Tuning Fork at Earthling Nature.
- Messiah.edu
Categories:
- Dacrymycetes
- Fungi of Europe
- Fungi described in 1783
- Inedible fungi
- Taxa named by August Batsch
- Fungi of North America
- Basidiomycota stubs