(Calocera cornea)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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IUCN Red List | not listed |
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NatureServe | not listed |
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Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Club-like Tuning Fork is a small, common and widespread jelly fingus. It occurs on every continent except Antarctica. In the United States it occurs east of the Great Plains and west of the Rocky Mountains. It fruits from spring through fall but mostly August through November, usually after a heavy rain. It is saprobic, obtaining its nutrients from decaying wood. It is found on barkless stumps, fallen logs, twigs, and branches of dead hardwood trees (especially oaks) and occasionally also of conifers. It grows in groups or clusters and is often seen in rows growing out of cracks in the wood. It is easily overlooked due to its very small size and occurrence in damp shady places. The fruiting body is a cylinder-shaped, 1 ⁄16″ to ¾″ tall, 1 ⁄32″ to ⅛″ in diameter, straight or curved spike. It usually occurs as an upright, pointed spike, but is often forked, like a pair of curved horns. It is rarely forked at the tip. It is yellow to orangish-yellow when moist, becoming more orange in drier conditions. The texture is rubbery, gelatinous but firm. The spore print is white or pale yellow. It is considered to be inedible due to its small size and gelatinous texture. |
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Similar Species |
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Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus (Dacryopinax spathularia) fruiting bodies are fan-shaped or spatulate. |
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Habitat and Hosts |
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Sstumps, fallen logs, twigs, and branches Hardwoods and occasionally conifers |
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Ecology |
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Season |
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Spring through fall but mostly August through November |
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Distribution |
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Occurrence |
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Common and widespread |
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Taxonomy |
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Phylum | Basidiomycota (club fungi) | ||
Kingdom | Fungi (fungi) | ||
Subkingdom | Dikarya | ||
Phylum | Basidiomycota (club fungi) | ||
Subphylum | Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms) | ||
Class | Dacrymycetes | ||
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Dacrymycetales | ||
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Dacrymycetaceae | ||
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Calocera | ||
Synonyms |
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Clavaria cornea |
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Common Names |
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Club-like Tuning Fork Small Stagshorn |
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Glossary
Saprobic
A term often used for saprotrophic fungi. Referring to fungi that obtain their nutrients from decayed organic matter.
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About
Oct 14, 2019 Calocera cornea on white oak branch after rainfall. |
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Created: 5/15/2017
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