Gelopellis

Gelopellis is a genus of fungi in the family Claustulaceae. The species in this relatively rare genus have fruit bodies that resemble the unopened egg of Mutinus, with the columnella (sterile tissue extending up into or through the gleba) occupying the place where the compressed receptacle would be in the latter genus.[1] The genus contains six species found in South America, Japan, and Australia.[2]

Gelopellis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Phallales
Family:
Claustulaceae
Genus:
Gelopellis

Zeller (1939)
Type species
Gelopellis macrospora
Zeller (1939)
Species

G. macrospora
G. purpurascens
G. rufus
G. shanxiensis
G. thaxteri
G. tholiformis

References
  1. Dring DM, Rose AC (1977). "Additions to west African phalloid fungi". Kew Bulletin. 31 (3): 741–51. doi:10.2307/4119427.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.


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