Directory of Lycoperdaceae Resources

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Lycoperdaceae is a family of fungi which contains 10 genera including the genera Vascellum, Calvatia and Lycoperdon, the puffballs.

Resources in This Category

• Bovista plumbea

  http://www.pilzepilze.de/galerie/v/Lateinisch/B/bovista/plumbea/
  Several photographs of this globular species.

• Calbovista subsculpta: Sculptured Giant Puffball

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/calbovis.htm
  Photograph and information on this particular specimen which grew in British Colombia.

• Calvatia

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/calvatia.html
  A fun look at what can be done with giant puffballs besides eating them.

• Calvatia craniformis

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/calvatia3.html
  Photograph of this skull-shaped puffball.

• Calvatia cyathiformis

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/calvatia2.html
  Photographs of this puffball when mature and as a dead base after the spores have been released.

• Calvatia gigantea

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/aug98.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this edible fungus, the Giant Puffball, with a photograph of a fairy ring formed of these fungi, and information on some other puffballs.

• Calvatia gigantea

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r150372.htm
  Photographs of the fruitbody of this species, commonly known as the Giant Puffball, and magnified images of the Capillitium.

• Calvatia gigantea: Giant Puffball

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/carlyon_kath/
  Student project with classification, habitat, reproduction and structure.

• Handkea utriformis

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r145946.htm
  Photographs of the fruitbody of this species, commonly known as the Mosaic Puffball.

• Lycoperdon perlatum

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Lycoperd.html
  Photograph of this species.

• Vascellum pratense

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157281.htm
  Photographs of this species, commonly known as the Meadow Puffball.

• Vascellum pratense

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157271.htm
  Photographs of an old fruitbody of this puffball and magnified images of the spores and paracapillitium.

 

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