Calocera viscosa (Pers.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 486 (1821) Clavaria viscosa Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 117 (1794) Calocera flammea Fr., Symbolae mycologicae: 117 (1869) Calocera cavarae Bres., in Cavara, Staz. Sper. Argar. Ital. 29: 14 (1896) Calocera viscosa var. cavarae (Bres.) McNabb, N.Z. Jl Bot. 3: 40 (1965)
Habitat: On dead wood of conifers, usually large. Dubiously reported on deciduous wood (Fagus, Fraxinus, Quercus spp., Hedera and Sambucus nigra).
Notes: Very common and widespread. The var. cavarae is simply an unpigmented (albino) form, not otherwise distinct.
Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: !; Isle of Man: c
Vouchers: England: K(M) 80892; Scotland: K(M) 79189; Wales: K(M) 79177
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 263 D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 50, pl. 2 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 91
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