The peridium (outer wall) consists of several layers, including a gelatinous layer.

The peridium is white to buff-colored on the external surface, and has a gelatinous layer inside.

The gelatinous layer is therefore divided up into many irregular longitudinal chambers.

The egg mass is held together by a gelatinous outer layer protecting the outer capsule of individual eggs.

They consist of a bright red, globose head atop a net-like stipe, covered in a thick gelatinous layer.

Like the head, the stipe is covered in a gelatinous outer layer.

The paraphyses are 5-8 μm wide, shorter than the basidia, more abundant and form a somewhat gelatinous layer.

The eggs are enclosed in a tough covering and a gelatinous layer that breaks down as the stinkhorn emerges.

Both are made of the same sensory tissue containing hair cells, which is covered by a gelatinous layer and the otolithic membrane on top.

But the eggs inside their gelatinous outer layer are cream-coloured without a dark hemisphere, indicating a specialised oviposition site.