Calocera cornea
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.
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Order: | Dacrymycetales |
Family: | Dacrymycetaceae |
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Species: | C. cornea |
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Clavaria cornea Batsch (1783) |
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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 |
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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
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