Can anybody help me to identify this stinkhorn sample?

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Marwa Elnaiem

The egg stage

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M. R. Asef

They are Itajahya galericulata, a tropical and subtropical fungi from Phallaceae. Note the presence of calyptra in your samples.

Thanks Mohammad Reza Asef, Have you any information or photo about this genus?

Read these two papers on Itajahya that are review of genus in N. America and a new species name in genus.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mtax/mt/2012/00000119/00000001/art00049

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3754905?uid=3738280&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103268392577

Unfortunately I couldn't access the two articles you recommend. would you please send them in PDF format?

First paper is free available, so just click it (if you can't, I can send you). About second one you have to find a hard copy.

Thanks, I got the first paper.

Peter Werner

Posting your photos to Mushroomobserver.org is probably the best place for help with IDing macrofungi.