Calocera cornea (Batsch) Fr.
Club-like tuning fork

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Description:
jelly fungus
Fruiting Body: fruitiing structure up to 1.5 cm high. Spore Print Color: yellow. Spores: basidiospores 7-10 x 3-4 µm, cylindrical to curved, smooth, pale yellow, becoming 1-septate.

Diagnostic microscopic feature: basidia single-celled with tuning fork shape

Dynamically generated map
common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: hardwood logs, sticks, etc.

Habitat: deciduous woods, less commonly coniferous woods

 
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Dacrymycetales
 

 

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