Key Identification Features
- The main feature that separates the genus Itajahya from other groups in the stinkhorn family is a patch of whitish tissue called a calyptra or operculum that sits on top of the pileus.
- Both species produce whitish, similarly sized mesh-ball fruit bodies, but they can be told apart by features of the receptacle arms that form the mesh.
- Stipe color ranges from white to pink to red, and it has 4–6 distinct, deeply grooved sides separated by lengthwise ribs.
- The angular shape of this stipe is the key feature that distinguishes L.
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