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Bovista plumbea Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 15: 4 (1795) Lycoperdon bovista Sowerby, Col. fig. Engl. Fung. Mushr. (London) 3: tab. 331 (1803)
Lycoperdon plumbeum Vittad., Monogr. Lycoperd.: 174 (1842)
Bovista ovalispora Cooke & Massee, Grevillea 16(no. 78): 46 (1887)
Habitat: On soil amongst short grass, often in coastal turf and on dunes but also in meadows, pastures, on golf links, lawns, downland and roadside verges. Rarely in open woodland.
Notes: Very common and widespread.
Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: c
Vouchers: England: K(M) 44259; Scotland: K(M) 14912; Wales: K(M) 81070; ROI: K(M) 81081; Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 25009
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 249
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 388, pl. 508
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 334
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. 140-141, pl. Figs 107/108
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