MycoKey : the genus Phallus

Generic short diagnoses: Phallic, with a well defined pileus with a honey-comb like structure holding the foetid, slimy gleba on top of long, hollow cigar-shaped stipe with a basal volva.


Species example:


Phallus hadriani - DK: sand-stinksvamp UK: Sand Stinkhorn - closeup
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-06.268

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