PHALLACEAE Corda
(stinkhorns and cage fungi)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Aseroe rubra Starfish Fungus	Species			2 ident. refs
Clathrus cage fungi	Genus	2 subtaxa	45 images	8 ident. refs
Mutinus a genus of stinkhorns	Genus	3 subtaxa	31 images	2 ident. refs
Phallus stinkhorns	Genus	4 subtaxa	29 images	3 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PHALLACEAE (stinkhorns and cage fungi)
Order	PHALLALES (stinkhorns and cage fungi)
Subclass	PHALLOMYCETIDAE (stinkhorns, stinkhorn truffles, and earth-stars, coral, tooth and club fungi)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PHALLACEAE is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Phallales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Kibby, G.	2015	The weird, wonderful and smelly world of stinkhorns and clathroid fungi	Field Mycology Vol 16 (2): 58-69, rear cover.
	Pegler, D.N. & Gomez, L.D.	1994	An unusual member of the cage fungus family	Mycologist Vol 08 (2): 54-59.
()	Pegler, D.N., Laessoe, T. & Spooner, B.M.	1995	British Puffballs, Earthstars & Stinkhorns	255pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

PHALLACEAE (stinkhorns and cage fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PHALLALES
(stinkhorns and cage fungi)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PHALLACEAE (stinkhorns and cage fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 12 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PHALLACEAE (stinkhorns and cage fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PHALLACEAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)