Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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: edible |
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum 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.[1] The fungus is found in the southern United States.[2]
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Categories:
- Puffballs
- Fungi described in 1873
- Fungi of the United States
- Taxa named by Miles Joseph Berkeley
- Lycoperdon
- Agaricaceae stubs