Species
Lycoperdon curtisii (Curtis’s puffball)
Lycoperdon curtisii. Photo: (c) katjustis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Lycoperdon curtisii is a type of puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. It was first described scientifically in 1859 by Miles Joseph Berkeley. Vascellum curtisii, published by Hanns Kreisel in 1963, is a synonym. Its fruit bodies (puffballs) have been recorded growing in fairy rings.