Lycoperdon excipuliforme (Scop.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: 143 (1801) Lycoperdon cervinum sensu Bolton [Hist. Fung. Halifax 2: 116 (1789)] p.p. Lycoperdon polymorphum var. excipuliforme Scop., Fl. carniol. Edn 2 (Vienna) 2: 488 (1772) Lycoperdon saccatum Vahl, Fl. Danic.: tab. 1139 (1792) Lycoperdon excipuliforme f. flavescens Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Sér. 2 5: 368 (1873) Lycoperdon elatum Massee, J. Roy. Microscop. Soc.: 710 (1887) Calvatia saccata (Vahl) Morgan, J. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 12(4): 171 (1890) Lycoperdon excipuliforme var. flavescens (Quél.) Rea, Brit. basidiomyc. (Cambridge): 31 (1922) Calvatia excipuliformis (Scop.) Perdeck, Blumea 6: 490 (1950) Handkea excipuliformis (Scop.) Kreisel, Nova Hedwigia 48(3-4): 283 (1989)
Habitat: On humic soil in woodland areas, and occasionally amongst short turf in grassland.
Notes: Common and widespread. Macroscopically polymorphic, thus has acquired a long list of synonyms (see Kriesel 1989).
Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Isle of Man: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 81125; Scotland: K(M) 7999; Wales: K(M) 81126; NI: K(M) 81123; ROI: K(M) 81124
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Calvatia excipuliformis, p. 246-247 D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), as Calvatia excipuliformis, p. 388, pl. 510 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), as Calvatia excipuliformis, p. 336 D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Læssøe, T., & Spooner, B.M, British Puffballs, Earthstars and Stinkhorns: an account of the Gasteroid Fungi: 1-255 (1995), p. 126-127, pl. Figs 95/96
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