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Lycoperdon

Notes

Fruiting bodies with a sterile, broad, stalk-like base, flesh white when young, powdery and brown when mature, opening through a well-defined pore. On soil.
Several species reported for New Zealand, but poorly understood taxonomically. Only those species listed below treated in the Virtual Mycota.

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 Lycoperdon glabrescens  
 Lycoperdon nitidum  
 Lycoperdon perlatum  
 Lycoperdon perlatum  
 Lycoperdon scabrum  
 Lycoperdon spadiceum