| Generic short diagnoses: A shooting star! Super unique, small stellately splitting fruitbodies revealing a single dark ballistic peridiole that is shot far away towards the light by the inversion of one of several peridial layers after buildup of turgur pressure. |
Sphaerobolus stellatus - DK: bombekaster, UK: Shooting Star |
 | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-01.314 |
 | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, 1994 |
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