Lycoperdon pulcherrimum

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]

Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Lycoperdon
Species:
L. pulcherrimum
Binomial name
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1873)
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

References

  1. Berkeley MJ. (1873). "Notices of North American fungi". Grevillea. 2 (16): 49–53.
  2. 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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