Calocera
Sticky Hörnling ( Calocera viscosa )
The Hörnlinge ( Calocera ) is a fungal genus of the family of gelatinous tears relatives. They include species with gelatinous, mostly yellow to bright orange colored, horn-shaped fruiting bodies. They colonize dead wood and produce different depending on the substrate Fäuletypen ..
The type species is the Sticky Hörnling ( Calocera viscosa ).
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Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The tough, gelatinous fruit bodies in strong roots and often have a sticky surface. They are predominantly joyfully colored by carotenoids yellow to orange.
Microscopic characteristics
The structures are mostly covered by the spore-forming fruit layer. The meat 3 layers built up comprises a central core of compact hyphae, which is surrounded by a loose hyphae and eventually eclipsed by the compact fruit layer. The hyphae European species have no buckles. Similarly, no cystidia occur in the hymenium. The smooth-walled spores have at maturity at 1-3 cross walls and show on contact with iodine solution, no color reaction ( inamyloid ).
Ecology
Hörnlinge live saprobiontisch of hardwood and softwood. They are often classified in the literature as brown rot fungi. Keith Seifert, who examined the wood degradation by Dacrymycetales species, are for Hörnlinge however, several Fäulearten to, sometimes even for one and the same type depends on the type of wood populated.
Species
Worldwide, there are about 15 species. In Europe, five species occur or are expected there:
Forked Softwood Hörnling Calocera furcata
Tongue -shaped Hörnling Calocera glossoides
Sticky Hörnling Calocera viscosa