Other Fungi

This group gathers Fungi subcategory members that are genuine fungi but that this atlas's own sourced descriptions do not identify with one of the eight more specific fungus groups gathered separately above. It spans the stinkhorns, fungi named for a foul, carrion-like odor that attracts flies to disperse their spores and for a shape that in several species is strikingly phallic, tooth fungi such as the bleeding tooth fungus and lion's mane, named for spore-producing surfaces covered in small tooth- or spine-like projections rather than gills or pores, and jelly fungi such as wood ear and Tremella mesenterica, whose gelatinous, rubbery fruiting bodies swell dramatically after rain and shrink to a hard, inconspicuous husk in dry weather. Every member gathered here is a genuine fungus by the broad definition of the kingdom Fungi; the split above exists only to keep eight especially large or well-known groups browsable on their own rather than to draw a biological line excluding anything placed here.