Calocera

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Calocera is a fungal genus in the Dacrymycetes order. It is widely distributed and contains 15 species.[3][4]

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Calocera
Calocera cornea growing on a log
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Dacrymycetes
Order: Dacrymycetales
Family: Dacrymycetaceae
Genus: Calocera
(Fr.) Fr. (1825)[1]
Type species
Clavaria viscosa
(Pers.) Fr. (1827)
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[2]

Clavaria subgen. Calocera Fr. (1821) Caloceras Fr. ex Wallr. (1833)
Dacryomitra Tul. & C.Tul. (1872)

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Etymology

Calocera is derived from the Greek words kalós, "beautiful", and kéras, "horn".[5] In English it is called stagshorn, which also describes its similarity with the horn of an animal.[6]

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