Cap narrowly, bell-shaped, with apex open to hollow stem. Surface granular and white under slimy, olive-tinged spore mass. Stem cylindric, tapering upwards from a tough, membranous, cup-like volva, which is smooth and wrinkled on outside and white to pinkish or lilac-tinged inside. Spores yellow. The spores suspension in gleba makes it impossible to produce a conventional spore print.
Microscopic Features: The spores are ellipsoidal to oblong and smooth, measuring 3.5 x 1.5-2.5µm.
Phallus impudicus on the First Nature web site.
Phallus impudicus MushroomExpert.Com web site.
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