Phallus merulinus (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea, 1882

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 merulinus (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea 11(no. 58): 57 (1882) ( Fig. 6a )

Synonyms: Dictyophora irpicina Pat., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr., 14, p. 190 (1898).

Phallus irpicinus (Pat.) Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. , 2 (26), p. 331 (1907).

Description:— Cheype et al. (2010: 54)

Habitat and distribution:—Specimens were collected on sandy soil in fragments of secondary upland forests, a successional type of lowland ombrophilous dense forest. It is known from South America ( Cheype 2010) and Asia ( Liu 1984). This is the first record for Central Amazonia and the second record for Brazil; the first record was from the southern state of Paraná as Phallus cf. merulinus ( Meijer 2006) .

Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaus, ASSINPA (Latitude:–3.092724, Longitude:–59.994434, Datum: WGS84 ), 12 November 2010, Ishikawa NK ( INPA240010 ); INPA Campus III (Latitude:–3.092820, Longitude:– 59.994046, Datum: WGS84 ), 10 November 2010, Ishikawa NK 12 ( INPA240009 ); Puraquequara, 30 November 2010, Vargas-Isla R . 13 ( INPA 240014 ); Puraquequara , 29 November 2010, Vargas-Isla R . 15 ( INPA240015 ) .

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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.