Family: Phallaceae

Family: Phallaceae

Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Basidiomycetes:> Gomphales:> Phallaceae:> Aseroe, Anthurus, Ileodictyon, Pseudocolus, Mutinus.

This family is one of the most strange in the fungus kingdom. Its members attract insects most often flies, for spore dispersal and to this end they mimic the smell of dung. Soon after hatching, the stench from the stink horn is detected by insects which come to feed on it, and when they leave they carry away spores on theirs bodies and in what they eat, to be deposited later far away from the parent fungus. Snails and slugs also help with spore dispersal.

Genus: Aseroe

This fungi comes in a widely deferent forms some times with a long stipe and long orange tentacles. While at other times it has a relatively short, wide stipe with long red tentacles or a mixture of these basic shapes. Its believed that the orange tentacle are the result of nutrient deficiencies.

Species: Aseroe rubra La Bill.: Fr.
Common Name: Flower Fungus Found: Native Forest Substrate: Forest floor Spore: Brown	Height: 140 mm Width: 100 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Anthurus

Species: Clathrus archeri (Berk.) E. Fisch.
Common Name: Giant Stink horn Found: Private Farm Substrate: Open farm land Spore: Brown	Height: 100 mm Width: 200 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Ileodictyon

Ileodictyon cibarium is the common basket fungus found in both native bush and wood chip mulch. Recently a new species has been found in sand dunes which is very similar.

Species: Ileodictyon cibarium Tul. The common basket fungus, which once it's expanded, rolls easily away from it's volva. With the olivaceous spore mass lining the inner surface of the white basket.
Common Name: Basket Fungus Found: Native forest Substrate: Forest floor Spore: Brown	Height: 200 mm Width: 200 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Pseudocolus

Species: Pseudocolus javanicus (Penzig) Lloyd. Like a small slender pale Clathrus archeri with 3 to 4 arms. Which remain white or may turn red or orange at their tips which are always joined.
Common Name: None Found: Native Forest Substrate: Forest Floor Spore: Brown	Height: 120 mm Width: 25 mm Season: ? Edible: No

Genus: Mutinus

Species: Mutinus borneensis Ces., Atti dell' Has a receptacle like a thick white thumb, rising to 10 cm tall from a whitish volva formed by the split peridium.
Common Name: Yellow stinkhorn Found: Podocarp and Mixed Native forest Substrate: Growing from wood Spores: ?	Height: 100 mm Width: 8 mm Season: Summer to autumn after rain Edible: No

Species: Mutinus ravenelii
Common Name: Yellow stinkhorn Found: Organic material Substrate: Ground Spores: ?	Height: 100 mm Width: 8 mm Season: Autumn after rain Edible: No

Species: Protubera nothofagi
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Ground Spores: ?	Height: 40 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Unidentified

The fungi below seams to be a little bit of a mystery some consider it to be a large Aseroe rubra others Anthurus archer but nether seam to fit there descriptions well. This is has become common with the popularity of using wood chip as a mulch. Also known to have both orange and yellow forms.

Species: Clathrus species This stinkhorn has a hollow stem-like base whitish or pinkish contained at first within the volva but which may continue to elongate with 4 to 8 scarlet arms rise from the stem top which divide in two. The tips of which are joined to the adjacent pair when young which breaks free as it ages.
Common Name: Kings Crown Found: Urban Gardens Substrate: Wood chips Spore: Brown	Height: 100 mm Width: 200 mm Season: Autumn to Spring Edible: No

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