| Generic short diagnoses: Potato-shaped, sessile or ± stipitate ectotrophic gasteroids with at first a marbled firm gleba and later with a very powdery black gleba without capillitial threads and with big, strongly ornamented spores. |
Scleroderma bovista - DK: bovist-bruskbold, UK: Potato Earthball |
 | Illustration and © Thomas Læssøe TL-4503 |
 section through fruit-body | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-06.176 |
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