Bovista plumbea

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,031 meters (0 to 16,506 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Bovista ovalispora Cooke & Massee 1887 • Bovista plumbea var. ovalispora (Cooke & Massee) F. Šmarda 1958 • Calvatia bovista (L.) Pers. 1896 • Lycoperdon bovista Sowerby 1803 • Lycoperdon plumbeum Vittad. 1842

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 05-Sep-2008

Similar Species

Members of the genus Bovista

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. nigrescens (Brown Puffball) · B. paludosa (Fen Puffball) · B. plumbea (Paltry Puffball) · B. pusilla (Dwarf Puffball)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• GBIF New Zealand: NZFUNGI - Collections of the New Zealand National Fungal Herbarium (PDD)
• GBIF-Spain: Dpto. de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Córdoba. Fungi-COFC
• GBIF-Spain: Flora Mycologica Iberica
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Fungi
• GBIF-Sweden: Fungi (GBIF-SE:Artdatabanken)
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Herbarium (AMNH)
• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences: Fungus collection of the Jyvaskyla University Museum
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Fungi field notes, Oslo (O)
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Mycology herbarium, Bergen (BG)
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Mycology herbarium, Oslo (O)
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Notes from the Mycology Herbarium, Oslo (O)
• Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Fungal Collection at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
• Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum - Herbarium GJO: Herbarium GJO
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, Mycology Herbarium
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Danish Mycological Society, fungal records database
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU
• Utah State University: USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3110871
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: SF-209632
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2136937
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:209632
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2351831

Footnotes

1. Mean = -120.430 meters (-395.112 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,069.270 based on 68,661 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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