Phallus indusiatus Vent.

Cabral, Tiara S., Da Silva, Bianca D. B., Ishikawa, Noemia K., Alfredo, Donis S., Braga-Neto, Ricardo, Clement, Charles R. & Baseia, Iuri G., 2014, A new species and new records of gasteroid fungi (Basidiomycota) from Central Amazonia, Brazil, Phytotaxa 183 (4), pp. 239-253 : 248

Phallus indusiatus Vent. : Pers., Syn. Meth. Fung. 244 (1801) ( Fig. 6c )

Synonyms: Dictyophora phalloidea Desv., J. Bot. (Paris) , 2, p. 92 (1809).

Dictyophora tahitensis (Schltdl.) E. Fich., Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin , 4, p. 37 (1886).

Phallus callichrous (Möller) Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. , 2, p. 6 (1907).

Description:— Baseia et al. (2006: 89).

Habitat and distribution: — On soil, next to roots of “açaí” ( Euterpe precatoria Mart., Palmae ). Specimens were collected in fragments of secondary floodplain forest, a successional type of alluvial ombrophilous dense forest. It is known from Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania ( Bottomley 1948, Cunningham 1944, Liu 1984). This is the first record for the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Amazonas: Codajás (Latitude:–3.78291, Longitude:–62.02186, Datum: WGS84 ), 12 December 2012 , Cabral TS 29 ( INPA 255830 ) .

Figures

FIGURE 6. Phallaceae species. Phallus merulinus (a), Phallus atrovolvatus (b), Phallus indusiatus (c), Mutinus fleischeri (d), Staheliomyces cinctus (e). Scale bars correspond to 20 mm. Photographs (a), (b) and (d) by N.K.Ishikawa, photographs (c) and (e) by T.S. Cabral.