Christmas Island Botanical Postage Stamps
Date of issue: 30 April 1984
Designer: Ian Loe
Printer: Format International
Part of a series of five fungi stamps
Fungus: Phillipsia domingensis
Family: SAROSCYPHACEAE
No common name
This fungus is widespread in the tropics. The original description of the
species (in 1852) was based on a specimen collected in Santo Domingo,
in the Caribbean. That locality is the basis for the appearance of
'domingensis' in the Latin name.