Club-like Tuning Fork

Calocera cornea

"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.
An Example of Calocera cornea... I hope! It may be too early to decide if this fungus is not really C. viscosa. So far it seems that these are “unbranched and rarely forked” which helped me with the identification. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Calocera cornea Calocera cornea,Canada,Geotagged,Summer

Appearance

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.

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Taxonomy
KingdomFungi
DivisionBasidiomycota
ClassDacrymycetes
OrderDacrymycetales
FamilyDacrymycetaceae
GenusCalocera
SpeciesC. cornea
Photographed in
Australia
Canada
Israel
United States of America