Calocera cornea | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Dacrymycetes |
Order: | Dacrymycetales |
Family: | Dacrymycetaceae |
Genus: | Calocera |
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 is 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]