Phallus rubicundus
Phallus rubicundus
Rubicundus phallus, sometimes called the German-speaking Orange Red Stinkhorn, is a species of fungus in the family Stinkmorchelverwandten.
- 6.1 Notes and references
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The mature fruiting bodies emerge from 2-3 cm wide, ovate witches eggs, which are whitish colored to pale brown. The slender, hollow on the inside handle is 15 cm high and 1.5-2.5 cm thick. Colors range from scarlet to orange- red. At the upper end of the stem is a fragile, 3-4.5 cm Cone, which is covered by the malodorous Gleba. The gleba is initially isabellfarben, but later takes on a dirty yellowish - brown color. The velum may be absent; if present, it looks flaky - skinned out from under the hat or hung in strips or patches on the stem.
Microscopic characteristics
The elongated, smooth spores are 2 x 4 microns in size.
Artabgrenzung
Rubicundus phallus is often confused with the making Hundsrute ( Mutinus elegans). In Mutinus elegans, however, the gleba covers only the strongly narrowed tip of the stem, while phallus rubicundus bears the spore mass on a clearly demarcated from the stalk, separate cones.
Ecology
In phallus rubicundus is a Saprobionten, which grows singly or in small groups on meadows, lawns, soy fields and sandy soils with wood residues. Also in New York's Central Park is the type often occurs: Gary Lincoff described phallus rubicundus in 2006 as " the most conspicuous fungus of the park just about anywhere there appears to bark. " In Australia phallus rubicundus could be observed on decayed trunks of giant nettle tree ( Dendrocnide excelsa ) and bark mulch near the University of Queensland.
Dissemination
The distribution area of phallus rubicundus located in Africa, Australia and Italy. In addition, they could also be found in the Great Plains, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland and New York City.
Taxonomy
William Henry Long, an American mycologist, the phallus rubicundus in 1907 described from Texas, noted that there is a significant color and shape diversity within the species. From Austin, he spoke of " copies with sturdy stems that appear on lawns and other sunny areas of grass ," while the specimens that he " sandy fields near rotten oak stumps and along fences on sandy soils " was held in Denton, by a much slimmer handle distinguished. The differences in the stature of the fruiting body are probably due to the varying depending on the location Nährstoffhaltigkeit of the substrate. It may also involve several, each very similar species. Edward Angus Burt represented in 1896, for example, the view that there must be, for the more vigorous specimens of phallus rubicundus a rotgestielte variety of phallus ravenelii because the slimmer version is significantly different from the other. Donald Malcolm Dring, 1977, described the species from Africa, was of the view that it is the sleeker and more powerful version of the two different species, and phallus phallus rubicundus aurantiacus, RELATES. Phallus rubicundus he described as rotgestielte style with a strong stem and a bell-shaped hat while Phallus aurantiacus in his opinion by a conical hat and an orange, slender stalk distinguished.
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- MycoBank: phallus rubicundus M ( Bosc ) Fr 1823 Fungal Databases.. Nomenclature and species Banks. Online Taxonomic Novelties Submission. Accessed on 21 October 2011.
- Kuo, M. (2011, April). Phallus rubicundus. Retrieved from the Web site MushroomExpert.Com
- AM Young, Tony Young: A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia. University of New South Wales, 2005, ISBN 0868407429 (248 pages).