Calocera cornea

Taxobox
name = "Calocera cornea"

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image_width = 270px
image_caption = "Calocera cornea"
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Basidiomycota
classis = Dacrymycetes
ordo = Dacrymycetales
familia = Dacrymycetaceae
genus = "Calocera"
species = "C. cornea"
binomial = "Calocera cornea"
binomial_authority = (Batsch) Fr.

"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 3mm in diamter, and 2cm in height. The hymenium covers the sides of the basidiocarps, each basidium producing and forcibly discharging only two basidiospores.

References

*C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., "Introductory Mycology, 4^th 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.
* [http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/club%20and%20coral/species%20pages/Calocera%20cornea.htm Messiah.edu]