Devil’s fingers fungus

In 1860 British mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley described this species and gave it the scientific name Lysurus archeri, thereby establishing its basionym. When this rare (in Europe) fungus was moved to the genus Clathrus by British mycologist Donald Malcolm Dring (1932-1978) in his 1980 monograph on the family Clathraceae, its name became Clathrus archeri. Dring, who worked at Kew Gardens, died suddenly at the age of just 46 - a sad loss to mycology.