| Generic short diagnoses: Smallish, often ± globose puffballs with none or very limited and then compact sterile tissue, often a torn, irregular, smallish opening, no diaphragm and often with long sterigmal remnants on the spores and with highly branched to less branched (as in Lycoperdon), elastic capillitium. |
Bovista nigrescens - DK: sortagtig bovist, UK: Brown Puffball |
 | Illustration and © Thomas Læssøe Denmark |
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