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Stinkhorns
| Is the fruiting body club-shaped, inside at top filled
with a green, slimy gleba?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body not club-shaped? ...........................
............................
Yes |
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You have a Phallogaster
saccatus |
| Is the fruiting body without a stalk; a large chambered
head seated in the volva?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body without a long cylindrical stalk? ......................
.............................
Yes |
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You have a Clathrus
columnatus |
| Is the head present, smooth, wrinkled, or chambered?
Yes |
Is the head absent?..............
.............................
Yes |
| Is the head regularly chambered, color red?
Yes |
Is the head smooth or wrinkled,
without skirt-like netted veil?
Yes |
|
You have a Simblum
sphaerocephalum |
| Is the head chambered, skirt-like; netted veil hangs
from lower margin of head?
Yes |
Is the head smooth or wrinkled, without skirt-like
netted veil? .......
..............................
Yes |
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You have a Dictophora
duplicata |
| Is the head chambered, skirt-like; netted veil hangs
from lower margin of head?
Yes |
Is the head smooth or wrinkled, without skirt-like
netted veil? .......
..............................
Yes |
| Is the head smooth, slimy?
Yes |
Is the head wrinkled, slimy?
Yes |
|
You have a Phallus ravenelii |
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You have a Phallus impudicus |
| Is it tapering at the apex and covered with green
slime? ............
............................
Yes |
Does it have upraised arms at the apex with a thin
strip of green slime on each arm?
Yes |
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You have a Mutinus caninus |
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You have a Lysurus borealis |
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