Tongue-shaped hornling

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Tongue-shaped hornling
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Tongue-shaped hornling ( Calocera glossoides )

Systematics
Subdivision : Agaricomycotina
Class : Dacrymycetes
Order : Gelatinous teardrop (Dacrymycetales)
Family : Gelatinous Tear Relatives (Dacrymycetaceae)
Genre : Hornlings ( Calocera )
Type : Tongue-shaped hornling
Scientific name
Calocera glossoides
( Pers .: Fr. ) Fr.

The tongue-shaped horn ( Calocera glossoides ) is a type of mushroom from the family of gelatinous tears . Like all horns ( Calocera ) it forms horn-like and tufted fruiting bodies that are yellowish in color. The species is known from several European countries, is growing saprobiontisch on dead hardwood and caused the substrate , a white rot .

features

Macroscopic features

The fruiting bodies of the tongue-shaped horn are yellow to golden brown, lanceolate or awl-shaped and 10 × 1  µm in size. They often grow gregarious to tufted. Its surface is sticky and wrinkled lengthways, making it resemble that of morels . They have a clearly developed sterile stalk, the rest of the fruiting body is covered with fertile hymenium.

Microscopic features

The hyphae structure is monomitic, i.e. it consists only of generative hyphae . The innermost fruit body consists of a compact hyphae, surrounded by a looser structure, which in turn is covered by a compact layer of fruit. The spores are smooth and inamyloid and have one to three septa. Like all horns , the species does not have cystidia and the hyphae have no buckles .

distribution

Calocera glossoides is so far only known from Europe. There the distribution extends from France and Great Britain to Sweden and south-east Poland. The species is considered rare in its entire range.

ecology

Calocera glossoides is a saprobiont on dead deciduous trees , in whose wood it causes a white rot by breaking down cellulose , hemicellulose and lignin . The most common substrates are maples ( Acer spp.), Beeches ( Fagus spp.) And oaks ( Quercus spp.). Usually lying trunks are colonized.

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literature

Individual proof

  1. Gunter B. Schlechte, Walter Keitel: Brown and white rot mushrooms: surveys in North Rhine-Westphalian natural forest cells on the basis of random samples for the maximum aspect . In: Forest Archive . tape 78 , 2007, p. 224–230 ( repro-mayr.de [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).

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