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Calvatia gigantea (Batsch) Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. 1: 166 (1904) Lycoperdon giganteum Batsch, Elench. fung. Cont. prima (Halle): 237 (1786)
Bovista gigantea (Batsch) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 583 (1821)
Langermannia gigantea (Batsch) Rostk., in Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. III (Pilze) 3: 23 (1839)
Habitat: On soil in parks, gardens, grassland, in and around cultivated fields (especially amongst beds of Urtica dioica on highly nitrogenous soil), on compost heaps, and occasionally in open woodland.
Notes: Occasional but widespread. An unmistakable species, fruiting from early summer.
Distribution: E: o, S: o, W: o, NI: o, ROI: o, Other: Channel Islands: o
Vouchers: England: K(M) 31564; NI: K(M) 81132
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Langermannia gigantea, p. 247
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), as Langermannia gigantea, p. 390, pl. 511
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), as Langermannia gigantea, p. 337
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. 116-117, pl. Figs 86/87
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