Basidiomycete Fungi (non-gilled).11.g Gasteromycetes - Stinkhorns

Stinkhorns: often colorful and either phallic-shaped or with multiple arms; with spores immersed in a greenish slime that attracts flies who disperse the spores; immature forms are within a membranous egg-like covering, sometimes resembling puffballs; mature phallic forms, when gluten is denuded by flies, can resemble a morel; summer and fall. Dictyophora, Mutinus, Phallus, Pseudocolus