Lysurus cruciatus or the lizard's-claw stinkhorn is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn family. It was first described scientifically in 1845 by French botanists François Mathias René Leprieur and Camille Montagne as Aserophallus cruciatus. German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings transferred it to the genus Lysurus in 1902. In 1901, the mushroom was rediscovered in Inanda, Natal. This "new" find was named L. woodii, which was later corrected to be the previously discovered L. cruciatus.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Lizard's Claw Stinkhorn being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Phallales
- Family
- Lysuraceae
- Genus
- Lysurus
- Species
- Lysurus cruciatus
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