- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Calocera cornea (Batsch) Fr.
- Scientific name
- Calocera cornea
- Author
- (Batsch) Fr.
- Common names
Small Stagshorn
Ragveida zaraine- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Dacrymycetes
- Order
- Dacrymycetales
- Family
- Dacrymycetaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga
- Comments etc.
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga, Tatiana Gibertoni, Inita Daniele, Jan Merta
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Calocera cornea is characterised by the bright orange basidiomata, hyphae without clamp connections, simple basidiomata and 1-septate basidiospores.
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 65 countries. In Brazil, it is known in 13 of the 26 states.
Population and Trends
There are about 11311 records of this species in GBIF, most of them in United Kingdom and 97 in Brazil.
Population Trend:
Habitat and Ecology
In Brazil, the species is found in Amazon Forest, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.
Threats
The species is distributed in Brazil, among pluvial forest domain and Cerrado. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado are already a hotspot.
Conservation Actions
Most records are in protected areas, however few of them in Cerrado, a hotspot
Research needed
The species has a fragmented distribution and studies about its population distribution are needed. In addition, the species was originally described from Germany and molecular studies should be carried out on other specimens in order to confirm the occurrence of this species elsewhere.
Use and Trade
None
