Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
Appearance
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Agaricaceae |
Genus: | Lycoperdon |
Species: | L. pulcherrimum
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Binomial name | |
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1873)
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Lycoperdon pulcherrimum | |
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Glebal hymenium | |
No distinct cap | |
Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable | |
Lacks a stipe | |
Spore print is olive | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is edible or inedible |
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum, commonly known as the long-spined puffball,[1] is a type of puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. It was first described scientifically in 1873 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis.[2] The fungus is found in the southern United States.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
- ^ Berkeley MJ. (1873). "Notices of North American fungi". Grevillea. 2 (16): 49–53.
- ^ Miller HR, Miller OK Jr. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, Connecticut: Falcon Guides. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
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