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Lycoperdon echinatum Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 1: 147 (1794) Lycoperdon hoylei Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 4 [Notices of British Fungi No. 1307] 7: 430 (1871)
Habitat: On soil (usually calcareous) amongst litter of deciduous trees in woodland. Usually found with Fagus in beechwoods and uncommonly with Betula, Corylus and Quercus spp. Rarely reported with conifers such as Larix and Pinus spp.
Notes: Occasional in England and most common in the south and south-east. Rarely reported elsewhere but apparently widespread and known as far north as Perthshire.
Distribution: E: o, S: !, W: !, NI: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 54722; Wales: K(M) 125516
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 246-247
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 390, pl. 512
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 338
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. 150-151, pl. Figs 115/116
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