Biology:Lysurus cruciatus

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Short description: Species of fungus

Lysurus cruciatus
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L. cruciatus
Binomial name
Lysurus cruciatus
(Lepr. & Mont.) Henn. (1902)
Synonyms[3]
  • Aserophallus cruciatus Lepr. & Mont. (1845)[1]
  • Lysurus australiensis Cooke & Massee (1889)[2]
  • Anthurus australiensis (Cooke & Massee) E.Fisch. (1893)
  • Anthurus cruciatus (Lepr. & Mont.) E.Fisch. (1900)
  • Lysurus cruciatus var. nanus Calonge & B.Marcos (1991)
  • Lysurus cruciatus var. nanus Calonge & B.Marcos (2000)

Lysurus cruciatus or the lizard's-claw stinkhorn[4] is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn family. It was first described scientifically in 1845 by French botanists François Mathias René Leprieur and Camille Montagne as Aserophallus cruciatus. German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings transferred it to the genus Lysurus in 1902.[3] Its fruit bodies feature a white, cylindrical tube supporting a cluster of hollow, reddish pointed arms whose surface is covered with foul-smelling spore mass, or gleba. The gleba is brownish to greenish in color, and contains spores with dimensions of 3–4 by 1.5–2 µm.[5]

In 1901, this mushroom was rediscovered in Inanda, Natal.[6] This "new" find was named L. woodii, which was later corrected to be the previously discovered L. cruciatus.[7]

References

  1. Montagne JPFC. (1845). "Cinquième Centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles. Décades VII à X" (in French). Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique 4 (3): 346–67. 
  2. Hennings P. (1902). "Eine neue norddeutsche Phalloidee (Anthurus borealis Burt var. n. klitzingii P. Hennings)" (in German). Hedwigia Beiblätter 41: 169–74. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Lysurus cruciatus (Lepr. & Mont.) Henn., Hedwigia Beiblätter 41: 172 (1902)". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Table=Mycobank&Rec=122170&Fields=All. Retrieved 2013-10-08. 
  4. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". 2020. https://www.wildspecies.ca. 
  5. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States. University of Iowa Press. 2008. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-58729-725-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=tl2fVAHuej4C&pg=PA247. 
  6. van der Bijl, Paul A. (1921-01-01). "NOTE ON LYSURUS WOODII (MacOWAN), LLOYD". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 9 (2): 191–193. doi:10.1080/00359192109520209. ISSN 0035-919X. https://doi.org/10.1080/00359192109520209. 
  7. Sharp, Cathy; Piearce, Graham (1999). "Some Interesting Gasteroid Fungi from Zimbabwe". Kew Bulletin 54 (3): 739–746. doi:10.2307/4110870. ISSN 0075-5974. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4110870. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1879001 entry