Directory of Phallales Resources

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Phallales is an order of basidiomycotic fungi. Members include the earth stars, and the stinkhorns in the genus Phallus.

Resources in This Category

• Aseroe rubra

  http://www.kaimaibush.co.nz/Fungi/Aseroe.html
  Several photographs of this strange species.

• Clathrus

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/Basid057.aspx
  Photograph of this labyrinthiform stinkhorn.

• Clathrus archeri

  http://www.pilzepilze.de/galerie/v/Lateinisch/C/clathrus/archeri/
  Several photographs of this colorful, star-shaped species.

• Clathrus cf. crispus

  http://www.cortland.edu/nsf/lodclath.HTML
  This species, photographed in the British Virgin Islands.

• Clathrus cf. preussii

  http://www.cortland.edu/nsf/7952clat.HTML
  This species was photographed in Puerto Rico.

• Coral fungus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramariaceae
  Photograph of Ramaria stricta and information from Wikipedia on this family of Coral Fungi which consists of seven genera.

• Dictyophora duplicata

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dicty.html
  Photograph of the netted stinkhorn emerging from its egg.

• Dictyophora duplicata

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/july99.html
  Article by Tom Volk on the Veiled or Netted Stinkhorn and other species which rely on flies for the dissemination of their spores.

• Gasteromycetes Key

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/GASTEROS/gastkey.htm
  A list of many of the fungi in this group, which includes puffballs and earthstars, with photographs of each.

• Geastraceae

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrales
  Article from Wikipedia on this family of Earthstars, which include the genera Geastrum and Myriostoma.

• Gomphaceae

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphaceae
  Article from Wikipedia describing this diverse family which includes eleven genera. Also two photographs of the Club Fungus, Clavariadelphus ligula, and one of Gomphus clavatus.

• Gomphaceae

  http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Mushrooms/Basidio/Gomphaceae.html
  Photographs of several species of Ramaria.

• Mutinus caninus, the Dog Stinkhorn

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2006.html
  Tom Volk provides photographs and much information on this foul-smelling species.

• Mutinus elegans: How to Hatch a Stinkhorn Egg

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/sept2002.htm
  Account by George Barron of how he located and succeeded in photographing fruitbodies of this species.

• Phallaceae

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae
  Article with several photographs from Wikipedia on this family of foul-smelling fungi which rely on flies to spread their spores.

• Phallales

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallales
  Article from Wikipedia on this order which includes the stinkhorns but now also the earthstars, the coral fungi, some false truffles, club fungi, and chanterelloid fungi.

• Phallus impudicus

  http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Mushrooms/Basidio/SpBasidio/Phallus.impudicus.html
  Several photographs of this fungus and photographs of its typical habitat and the insects that spread its spores.

• Sphaerobolus stellatus, the Cannonball Fungus

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jul2005.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this interesting species, with an animated drawing of how it can shoot its spore mass a considerable distance.

• Stinkhorn Egg

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/feb2002.htm
  Image of the cross section of a developing stinkhorn, Mutinus ravenelii, which takes about half an hour to expand and become fully mature.

 

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