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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Clavaria cornea Batsch (1783) | |
| Calocera cornea saprotrophic | |
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 | Edibility is inedible |
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Calocera cornea is a jelly fungus that grows on decaying wood.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
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
- 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.
External links
- Friday Fellow: Club-like Tuning Fork at Earthling Nature.
- Messiah.edu
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