It colonizes ruderal sites along transport routes and can become dominant in habitats disturbed by human activity.

Mycologists fear that it may be displacing native fungi species as it spreads through the paleotropics.

The specific epithet was chosen because the basidia and sterigmata of the species resemble those of the fungi of the genus Calocera.

There it was first found in 2004 near the Monte Deva, Gijon, by D. Francisco Casero, president of the Asturian Society of Mycology.

[24] In Asia it was first found in Thailand and China with a high level of genetic variation between the collections.