Pseudocolus

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Pseudocolus is a genus of fungi in the stinkhorn family. The fruit bodies have three or four simple arms that are initially joined at the tip, but often break apart. The tips of the arms are covered with a slimy, foul-smelling gleba, which attracts insects that help disperse the spores. The genus contains three species: the type Pseudocolus fusiformis, P. garciae, similar in appearance to the type but with a pinkish to red, rather than orange color, and P. grandis, found in India.

Taxonomy

The first appearance of the type species, Pseudocolus fusiformis, in the literature was in 1890, under the name Colus fusiformis, when Eduard Fischer wrote a description based on a painting he found in the Paris Museum of Natural History.[1] In his 1944 monograph on the Gasteromycetes of Australia and New Zealand, Gordon Herriot Cunningham considered this naming to be a nomen nudum—not published with an adequate description.[2] However, it was valid under the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. In 1899 Penzig described the species Colus javanicus based on a single specimen found on Java,[3] and a year later Fischer amended the name of his original Colus fusiformis to Colus javanicus, as he was not satisfied with the quality of his original description.[4] Despite his doubts on the validity of his description, his original naming is both legitimate and has priority over C. javanicus.[5]

In 1907, Curtis Gates Lloyd described the new genus Pseudocolus, and reduced several species to synonyms of Pseudocolus fusiformis.[6]

Description

The fruit body consists of a flaring, short stipe surmounted by unbranched columns that bear the gleba and are normally united at the apex, occasionally becoming free. The tissue of the receptacle has a tubular structure.[7]

Species

Several species described as Pseudocolus have been reduced to synonymy with P. fusiformis, while others are poorly known and have been seldom reported in the literature since their original descriptions.

Originally described in 1860 by Miles Joseph Berkeley as Lysurus archeri ,[8] this name is one of many synonyms now lumped under Clathrus archeri (Berk.) Dring (1980)
Originally Colus fusiformis E.Fisch.[1]
Described in 1918 from specimens collected by Voronoc in South Colchis; synonymous with P. fusiformis[10]

Distribution

Pseudocolis fusiformis is known from east Asia and Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, and southern Africa, and has been introduced to the United States.[11] P. garciae is found in North America and South America.[7] P. grandis is found in both northern and southern India.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fischer E. (1890). "Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte und Systematik der Phalloideen. I". Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Geseallschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften (in Deutsch). 32: 1–103.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cunningham GH. (1944). The Gasteromycetes of Australia and New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Penzig O. (1899). "Über javanische Phalloideen". Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg (in Deutsch). 16: 133–73.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fischer E. (1900). "Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte und Systematik der Phalloideen. III". Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften (in Deutsch). 36: 1–84.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blanton RL. (1976). "Pseudocolus fusiformis, new to North Carolina". Mycologia. 68 (6): 1235–9. doi:10.2307/3758756. JSTOR 3758756.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lloyd CG. (1907). "Concerning the phalloides". Mycological Notes. 2 (28): 349–64.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dring DM. (1980). "Contributions towards a rational arrangement of the Clathraceae". Kew Bulletin. 35 (1): 1–96+ii. Bibcode:1980KewBu..35....1D. doi:10.2307/4117008. JSTOR 4117008.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hooker JD. (1860). Botany of the Antarctic Voyage. III Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. 2. p. 264.
  9. ^ J.A. Sáenz, Rawla & R. Sharma, 1982, Revista de Biología Tropicale 30(1):102.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burk WR. (1978). "Pseudocolus fusiformis: synonymy and distributional records". Mycologia. 70 (4): 900–5. doi:10.2307/3759379. JSTOR 3759379.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kibby G. (1994). An Illustrated Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. London, UK: Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-681-45384-5.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kumaresan V, Ganesan T, Rajarajan D (2008). "Pseudocolus grandis from Southern India". Mushroom Research. 17 (2): 69–70. ISSN 0972-4885.

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