Bovista Pers. 1794

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Name scientific

Bovista Pers., Neu. Mag. Bot. 1 86 (1794)

Preferred name

Bovista Pers. 1794

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Pers.

Authors

Pers.

Publication place

Persoon, C.H. 1794: Dispositio methodica fungorum. Neues Magazin für die Botanik 1: 81-128.

Year published

1794

Publication page

Sanctioning author

Pers.

Sanctioning reference

Persoon, C.H. 1801: Synopsis Methodica Fungorum. Henricus Dieterich.

Sanctioning page(s)

136

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Bovista Pers. 1794

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Bovista

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Lycoperdaceae

Genus

Bovista

Subordinates

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Lupinus arboreus Sims

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Poaceae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Bovista Pers. 1794

Notes

Small puffballs found on soil, lacking a sterile base, and the inner spore case (tumbler) often separates at maturity and becomes blown around by the wind.

There are 4 species reported from New Zealand.

Notes

Fruiting bodies globose in shape, no sterile base, usually white, flesh white when young, powdery and brown when mature, opening through a well-defined pore. On soil, often in grassy places.

Four species reported for New Zealand but poorly understood taxonomically. Only those species listed below treated in the Virtual Mycota.