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nounany of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
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nounany of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
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- mushroom mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- gleba fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
- earthstar any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star
- basidiomycota comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
- basidiomycotina comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
- calvatia genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores
- calvatia gigantea huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight
- class gasteromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
- class gastromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
- family lycoperdaceae a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs