Biology:Calocera cornea
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Short description: Species of fungus
| Calocera cornea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Dacrymycetes |
| Order: | Dacrymycetales |
| Family: | [[Biology:|Dacrymycetaceae]] |
| Genus: | Calocera |
| Species: | C. cornea
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| Binomial name | |
| Calocera cornea (Batsch) Fr. (1827)
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| Synonyms | |
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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: inedible |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009) (in en). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. pp. 237-238. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=WevHvt6Tr8kC.
- ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. pp. 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q175548 entry
External links
- Friday Fellow: Club-like Tuning Fork at Earthling Nature.
- Messiah.edu
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