| Generic short diagnoses:
Smallish, often ± globose puffballs with none or very limited and then compact sterile tissue, often a torn, irregular, smallish opening, no diaphragm and often with long sterigmal remnants on the spores and with highly branched to less branched (as in Lycoperdon), elastic capillitium. |
Species example: |

Bovista plumbea - DK: blygrå bovist UK: Grey Puffball |
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe England, TL-2367 |
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