General Information

COMMON NAMES: Veiled Lady, Netted Stinkhorn, Stinkhorn Mushroom, Veiled Lady (for D. indusiata), Basket Stinkhorn (for D. indusiata) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE circum-tropical COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Land, volcanic soils KEY FEATURES: A phallic-shaped toadstool. An white, erect, hollow tube, to 15cm, with a terminal opening surrounded by a flaring cap 3cm long. Cap brown with putrid odour, becoming white. Attached under the cap is a white, flaring, lacelike curtain 8cm long.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
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Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
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Dictyophora indusiata QQGM
Query: RR specimens are near this species (GMcC)

TAXONOMY: MYCETAE (=Fungi); BASIDIOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCETES; Phallales; o.Phallales

IDENTIFICATION: An erect phallic-shaped toadstool to 15cm with small cap and a lace-like curtain. STALK to 15cm, base 3cmØ, tapering to terminal opening of 1cmØ; white; hollow with wall to 4mm with large cells and openings. CAP 3cm long, flaring, surface wrinkled; initially covered in brown spores, later white. CURTAIN white, lace-like, flaring, 8cm long. PUFFBALL to 3.5cmØ, surface rough, white. Brown cap has strong putrid odour.

GENERAL NOTE: Toadstools are inedible umbrella-shaped fungi. Mushrooms are edible umbrella-like fungi, although the term is often refers specifically to the Common Edible Mushroom (Agaricus campestris).

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen, 1/2000, Bill Cowan garden Ara Metua Matavera near hedge, ID GMcC as Dictyophora sp.; fieldspecimen+photo, 1/2004, Sue Carruthers' garden Muri under hedge, ID GM as Dictyophora indusiata QQGM.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB04a, zM04a, zD04a

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