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Calostoma
Calostoma is a genus of 29 species of gasteroid fungi in the suborder Sclerodermatineae. Like other gasteroid fungi, Calostoma do not have the spore discharge mechanism associated with typical gilled fungi (ballistospory), and instead have enclosed spore-bearing structures. Resembling round, orange to red gelatinous puffballs on thick stalks, species have been collected in regions of deciduous, temperate, tropical or subtropical forests. They have a worldwide distribution, including eastern North America, Asia, and Australasia. The common name...
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first
stalked puffball-in-aspic
speciesCalostoma cinnabarinum
Collared Calostoma
speciesCalostoma lutescens
Calostoma ravenelii
speciesCalostoma ravenelii
Forest Prettymouth
speciesCalostoma rodwayi
Calostoma fuscum
speciesCalostoma fuscum
Calostoma japonicum
speciesCalostoma japonicum
Calostoma insigne
speciesCalostoma insigne
Calostoma sarasinii
speciesCalostoma sarasinii
Calostoma junghuhnii
speciesCalostoma junghuhnii
Desert Prettymouth
speciesCalostoma fuhreri
Calostoma pachystelis
speciesCalostoma pachystelis
Calostoma sinocinnabarinum
speciesCalostoma sinocinnabarinum
Calostoma sp. 'AL01'
speciesCalostoma sp. 'AL01'
Calostoma brookei
speciesCalostoma brookei
Calostoma aeruginosum
speciesCalostoma aeruginosum
Calostoma guizhouense
speciesCalostoma guizhouense
Calostoma berkeleyi
speciesCalostoma berkeleyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68157.