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"the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"nounany of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
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- gleba fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
- class gasteromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
- stinky squid a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point
- phallales order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
- family clathraceae family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns
- mutinus caninus a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it
- class gastromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
- family phallaceae a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns
- order phallales order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
- phallus ravenelii this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh