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club-like tuning fork

Calocera cornea · Geel hoorntje
Wikipedia article

Club-like Tuning Fork

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. It is inedible. Calocera viscosa is related.

References

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

Observations

S Pleasant St, Amherst, MA, US ·

Taxonomy

  1. Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi) Paddenstoelen (schimmels) En Korstmossen
  2. Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota) Basidiomyceten
  3. Higher Basidiomycetes (Subphylum Agaricomycotina)
  4. Class Dacrymycetes
  5. Order Dacrymycetales
  6. Family Dacrymycetaceae
  7. Genus Calocera Hoorntje
  8. Club-like Tuning Fork (Calocera cornea)