| Calocera cornea | |
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| Order: | Dacrymycetales |
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| Species: | C. cornea |
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| Calocera cornea | |
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| 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: unknown |
Calocera cornea is a jelly fungus that grows on decaying wood. 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.
References
- 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.
- Messiah.edu
External links
- Friday Fellow: Club-like Tuning Fork at Earthling Nature.