Bovista colorata
| Bovista colorata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Bovista |
| Species: | B. colorata |
| Binomial name | |
| Bovista colorata (Peck) Kreisel (1964) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Bovista colorata is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is found in eastern North America and northwestern South America.[2] The puffball was first described as Lycoperdon coloratum by Charles Horton Peck in 1878, from collections made in Sand Lake, New York.[3] Hanns Kreisel transferred it to the genus Bovista by in 1964. The golden to orange-yellow fruitbodies are 13–30 cm (5.1–11.8 in) in diameter. Its spores are spherical, measuring 3.5–5 μm in diameter.[2]
References
- ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy: Bovista colorata (Peck) Kreisel". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- 1 2 Kreisel H. (1964). "Vorläufige Übersicht der Gattung Bovista". Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (in German) 69: 196–211 (see p. 201).
- ↑ Peck CH. (1878). "Report of the Botanist (1875)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History 29: 29–82 (see p. 46).
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