| Generic short diagnoses: A highly characteristic earthstar with stellately splitting exoperidium and an inner sporeball with multiple openings; spores in dry glebal mass with capillitial threads and with branched columella. |
Myriostoma coliforme - DK: "si-stjernebold", UK: Pepper Pot
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| Illustration and © Thomas Læssøe The Netherlands, C 46249 | 
| Illustration and © Hollos L. 1903 |
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