taxonomic status

PDD100387 = B. pusilla? Material elsewhere assigned as B. pusilla sensu Kreisel = Lycoperdon dermoxanthum

taxonomic status

ICN Shenzen 57.1: The name Bovista pusilla (Batsch : Pers.) Pers. (Syn. Meth. Fung.: 138. 1801) : Pers., based on Lycoperdon pusillum Batsch (Elench. Fung. Cont. Secunda: 123. 1789), is typified by a plate (Batsch, l.c.: t. 41, fig. 228. 1789) that represents the species currently known as B. limosa Rostr. (in Meddel. Grønland 18: 52. 1894) s. l., but has been widely and persistently used for either or both of two different species, the correct names of which are B. dermoxantha Vitt. and B. furfuracea Pers. : Pers. Unless and until a proposal to reject the name B. pusilla or to conserve B. limosa against it has been submitted and rejected, the name B. pusilla is not to be used.