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Calocera cornea

Calocera cornea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Dacrymycetes
Order: Dacrymycetales
Family: Dacrymycetaceae
Genus: Calocera
Species: C. cornea
Binomial name
Calocera cornea
(Batsch) Fr. (1827)
Synonyms

Clavaria cornea Batsch (1783)
Corynoides cornea (Batsch) Gray (1821)
Calocera cornes (Batsch) Fr. (1827)

Calocera cornea
Mycological characteristics
smooth hymenium
no distinct cap
hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable
stipe is bare
spore print is white
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: inedible

Clavaria cornea Batsch (1783)
Corynoides cornea (Batsch) Gray (1821)
Calocera cornes (Batsch) Fr. (1827)


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.


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