MycoKey : the genus Scleroderma

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.


Species example:


Scleroderma bovista - DK: bovist-bruskbold UK: Potato Earthball - section through fruit-body
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-06.176

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