''Phallus flavocostatus'' is an East Asian species of
fungus in the
stinkhorn family. First
described as ''Ithyphallus costatus'' by
Otto Albert Julius Penzig in 1899, it was transferred to the genus ''
Phallus
A phallus is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis. In art history a figure with an erect penis is described as ithyphallic.
Any object that symbolically—or, more precisel ...
'' by
Curtis Gates Lloyd
Curtis Gates Lloyd (July 17, 1859 – November 11, 1926) was an American mycologist known for both his research on the gasteroid and polypore fungi, as well as his controversial views on naming conventions in taxonomy. He had a herbarium with ab ...
in 1909.
It was given a new name by
Hanns Kreisel in 1996.
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Fungi described in 1899
Phallales
Fungus species
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