Lycoperdon
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| Lycoperdon | |
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| Lycoperdon pyriforme | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Lycoperdon |
| Type species | |
| Lycoperdon perlatum Pers. | |
Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 50 species.[1] In general, it contains the smaller species such as the pear shaped puffball and the gem studded puffball. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, as the type genus which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split. Lycoperdon is now placed in the family Agaricaceae of the order Agaricales.
The name comes from lycos meaning wolf and perdon meaning to break wind; thus the name literally means wolf-farts.
Species
- Lycoperdon bovista Sowerby 1803, see Bovista plumbea
- Lycoperdon caudatum (Syn. Lycoperdon pedicellatum) J.Schröt.
- Lycoperdon curtisii
- Lycoperdon echinatum Pers.
- Lycoperdon ericaceum (Syn. Lycoperdon muscorum)
- Lycoperdon ericaceum, var. subareolatum
- Lycoperdon lambinonii Demoulin 1972
- Lycoperdon lividum (Syn. Lycoperdon spadiceum) Pers. 1809
- Lycoperdon mammiforme Pers. 1801
- Lycoperdon marginatum (Syn. Lycoperdon candidum) Vittadini
- Lycoperdon molle
- Lycoperdon nigrescens (Syn. Lycoperdon foetidum) Bonord
- Lycoperdon norvegicum Demoulin 1971
- Lycoperdon ovoidisporum
- Lycoperdon perlatum (Syn. Lycoperdon gemmatum)
- Lycoperdon pyriforme Schaeff. ex Pers. (now Morganella pyriformis)
- Lycoperdon pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A. Curtis
- Lycoperdon rupicola[2]
- Lyoperdon subumbrinum[2]
- Lycoperdon umbrinum
References
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeppson M, Larsson E, Martín M. (2012). "Lycoperdon rupicola and L. subumbrinum: two new puffballs from Europe". Mycological Progress. doi:10.1007/s11557-011-0804-8.
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- Puffballs and their allies in Michigan by Alexander H. Smith, 1951. (Full text of monograph.)
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