Genus
Lycoperdon
Lycoperdon molle. Photo: (c) Leslie Flint, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 50 species. In general, it contains the smaller species such as the pear-shaped puffball and the gem-studded puffball. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, as the type genus which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split. Lycoperdon is now placed in the family Agaricaceae of the order Agaricales.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Agaricineae
- Family: Lycoperdaceae (Puffballs)
- Genus: Lycoperdon
- Species: Lycoperdon perlatum (Common puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon curtisii (Curtis's puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon umbrinum (Umber-brown puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon molle (Smooth puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon nigrescens (Dusky puffball)
- Species: Handkea fumosa (Smoky puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon pratense (Meadow puffball)
- Species: Lycoperdon marginatum (Peeling puffball)
- Genus: Lycoperdon
- Family: Lycoperdaceae (Puffballs)
- Suborder: Agaricineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
