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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: begins as egg-like form up to 2.5(4)cm tall; outer covering "white or occasionally with a faint pinkish or yellowish tinge, with an inner gelatinous layer", rupturing to form a volva at the base of the stem; mature fruitbody 5-10cm tall and 0.5-1.2cm thick, erect or curved slightly, roughly cylindric or wider near top, without a differentiated cap but with a "blunt, rounded or abruptly narrowed, often perforated tip"; fertile part (covering the upper 2-3cm but not the tip) white (var. albus) or bright orange-red to red to pink, but at first with slimy or mucilaginous covering that is olive to deep olive-brown and at maturity foul-smelling, (Arora), egg 2-4cm x 1-2.5cm, ovoid-elongated or pear-shaped, white or pale yellow with a mycelial crown at base, broken at top into 2-3 lobes from which the fruitbody emerges, (Lincoff), egg with white mycelial cords at base, (Schalkwijk-Barendsen)
Stem: more or less equal, "hollow, fragile, spongy (minutely chambered)"; white in var. albus, or "colored like cap (orange-red to orange or pink) or often paler or even white toward the base"; veil (indusium) absent, but volva a white, lobed sack or pouch; base usually with one or more white mycelial cords attached, (Arora)
Odor: slime is fetid, though not as strong as in Phallus impudicus or Clathrus ruber, (Arora), lightly foxy (Schalkwijk-Barendsen)
Microscopic: spores 3-7 x 1.5-2.5 microns, elliptic or oblong, smooth, (Arora), spores 3.5-5 x 1.5-2 microns, (Smith)
Habitat / Range
single to gregarious or clustered on ground and rotten wood in gardens, roadsides, woods, etc., (Arora), summer and fall (Bacon)
Similar Species
Mutinus elegans (= M. bovinus, M. curtisii), found in eastern North America, has a longer (9-18cm) fruitbody that is usually thickest in middle and tapered gradually toward the tip, with a larger area (up to 6cm) covered with slime, (Arora). Spores of M. elegans measure 4-7 x 2-3 microns, (Smith).
