Species
Bovista plumbea (Lead-grey puffball)
Bovista plumbea. Photo: (c) sileshsu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Bovista plumbea, also referred to as the paltry puffball, is a small puffball mushroom commonly found in Western Europe and California, white when young and greyish in age. Easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha, it is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium.
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Humboldt Life
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Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
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Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
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Class: Agaricomycetes
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Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
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Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
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Suborder: Agaricineae
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Family: Lycoperdaceae (Puffballs)
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Genus: Bovista (True puffballs)
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Subgenus: Bovista
- Species: Bovista plumbea (Lead-grey puffball)
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Subgenus: Bovista
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Genus: Bovista (True puffballs)
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Family: Lycoperdaceae (Puffballs)
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Suborder: Agaricineae
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Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
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Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
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Class: Agaricomycetes
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Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
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Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
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Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)