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Calocera cornea
Small staghorn, even though it does not look like one, is jelly-fungus, belonging to a class Dacrymycetes. It appears on decaying hardwood in clusters or individually. Fruiting bodies are small, between 10 and 20mm tall, in a form of spindle with rounded-off or pointed tips, and bright-yellow.
Growing on a decaying barkless log (hardwood), laying discarded on a forest floor in a protected oak and beech lowland forest, of Geneva lake valley.
Resembling a lot to yellow-club fungi (genus Clavulinopsis), these pics confused me for a few days. First, Yellow-clubs grow mainly in grassland or mousse or decaying substrats; while these ones protrude directly from decaying wood. And second, the size looked wrong, most of Yellow-club fungi would be slightly bigger. Finally, I had to go back to one of my old spottings (https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/11...) to get the answer...
Spotted on Dec 6, 2021
Submitted on Dec 10, 2021
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