MycoKey : the genus Bovistella

Generic short diagnoses: Medium sized puffball with a well developed spongy subgleba, mostly with pseudorhiza and an irregular opening; capillitium elastic, branched with pores, spores with long sterigmal remnant.


Species example:


Bovistella radicata - UK: Rooting Puffball
Photo and © Wulfard Winterhoff
Germany, 1979

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