Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Fungi Whittaker - fungi |
| divisio | Basidiomycota R. T. Moore - club fungi |
| subphylum | Agaricomycotina Doweld |
| class | Agaricomycetes |
| subclass | Phallomycetidae |
| order | Phallales E.Fisch. |
| family | Phallaceae Corda |
| genus | Lysurus Fr. |
| species | Lysurus cruciatus (Lepr. & Mont.) Henn. |