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Gelopellis
Sign in to saveGelopellis is a genus of fungi in the family Claustulaceae. The species in this relatively rare genus have fruit bodies that resemble the unopened egg of the stinkhorn Mutinus, with the columnella (sterile tissue extending up into or through the gleba) occupying the place where the compressed receptacle would be in the latter genus. The genus contains six species found in South America, Japan, and Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderPhallales
- FamilyClaustulaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Claustulaceae
- Collections
- NY, MEL, BPI
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Claustulaceae
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- taxon name
- Gelopellis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Zeller
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Gelopellis is a genus of fungi in the family Claustulaceae. The species in this relatively rare genus have fruit bodies that resemble the unopened egg of the stinkhorn Mutinus, with the columnella (sterile tissue extending up into or through the gleba) occupying the place where the compressed receptacle would be in the latter genus. The genus contains six species found in South America, Japan, and Australia.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gelopellis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.