Family: PHALLACEAE

Scientific name: Phallus multicolor

Common Name: Crinoline Fungus

Distribution: Widespread and common in QLD, NSW, VIC in sandy tropical Eucalypt woodland, forests.

General Information: A pink to orange cylindrical stem (10-20cm x 1-2 cm), smooth, spongy, dry and hollow. Cap 2-4 cm x 2-3 cm, conical, orange perforate at apex, forming a network on the surface and covered by olive-brown spore slime. Indusium pink to orange, mesh-like sheet surrounding stem. Immature fruiting body is a pink tinged gelatinous 'egg' (see below) 1-3 cm in diametre.

Specimen: Paten Track alongside pond, Mt Coot-tha, 4.3.06

Source: Young, T, Young AM, & Smith, K 2004, A Field Guide to Australian Fungi, UNSW Press, Australia.

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