Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Dacrymycetales Family: Dacrymycetaceae
Species: Calocera viscosa (Pers.) Fr.
Synonyms: Calocera cavarae
Calocera flammea
Calocera viscosa var. cavarae
Clavaria viscosa
Common Name: Yellow Stagshorn


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Calocera viscosaPhotographer: © David Mitchel
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Pinus sylvestris (19)
Picea sitchensis (9)
Fagus sylvatica (7)
Pinus (6)
Pinaceae (3)
Picea abies (3)
Picea (2)
Larix (2)
Quercus (2)
Acanthaceae (2)
Pinopsida (2)
Pinus contorta (1)
Carex (1)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (1)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland and scrub (11)
Woodland: coniferous, plantation (10)
Woodland: mixed (7)
Woodland: mixed, plantation (5)
Woodland (3)
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (3)
Mire: lowland raised bog, bare peat (2)
Parkland and scattered trees (2)
Rowan-birch woods (2)
Woodland: coniferous (2)
Woodland: coniferous, plantation, high forest (2)
Woodland: mixed, plantation, high forest (2)
Bog (1)
Bog: raised (1)
Boundaries: earth bank (1)
Heathland: wet dwarf shrub heath, upland (1)
Mire: basin mire, bog vegetation with Sphagnum (1)
Mire: lowland raised bog, bog vegetation without Sphagnum (1)
Mire: upland raised bog, bog vegetation with Sphagnum (1)
Parkland and scattered trees: coniferous (1)
Parkland and scattered trees: mixed (1)
Woodland: broadleaved (1)
Woodland: broadleaved, plantation (1)
Woodland: coniferous, semi-natural, high forest (1)
Woodland: plantation (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Stump (38)
Dead Wood (11)
Wood (8)
Soil (6)
Log (4)
Soil Mossy (4)
Branch (1)
Buried Wood (1)
Fallen Branch (1)
Fallen log (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (4)
February (1)
June (2)
July (6)
August (23)
September (33)
October (38)
November (13)
December (2)