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Definition of Order phallales
1. Noun. Order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Class Gasteromycetes, Class Gastromycetes, Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes
Member holonyms: Family Phallaceae, Phallaceae, Carrion Fungus, Stinkhorn, Dog Stinkhorn, Mutinus Caninus, Clathraceae, Family Clathraceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Phallales
Literary usage of Order phallales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"... X: OFFENSIVE FUNGI-order phallales THE Phallales are all terrestrial fungi;
that is, they are found growing on the ground, and not on logs and trees. ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... included those in which the fruit body is closed until after the maturity of
the spores. 468. order phallales ..."
3. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"... and each contains a chamber filled with spores. The carrion fungi. These very
malodorous fungi (order Phallales) grow in rich humus and ..."
4. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order PHALLALES. Stink-Horns. Spore-fruits large, fleshy, at first tuberous and
subterranean, later stalked and emerging. Saprophytes. Family 116. ..."
5. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"All members of the order Phallales should be preserved in alcohol (60-70^); it
is especially desirable that the earliest stages up to the so-called ..."
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