Unnamed species, immature fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Heino Lepp, Wilpena Pound, SA

Unnamed species, almost mature fruiting body. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Heino Lepp, Campbell, ACT

Unnamed species. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Heino Lepp, Bruce, ACT

Common Name

None

Family

Lycoperdaceae

Notes

Puffball-like fungi to 3cm across.  The mature fruiting body comes loose from the mycelium below and turns 180 degrees, so that the hole through which the spores are released is facing upwards.  Disciseda irregularis, Disciseda kaloola, Disciseda kiata, and Disciseda verrucosa in the area.   Family formerly Agaricaceae.

Technical descriptions and drawings of hyphae and spores in Grgurinovic, C. A. (1997), Larger Fungi of South Australia (Disciseda irregularis pages 637-638, Disciseda kaloola pages 645-646, Disciseda kiata pages 638-639, and Disciseda verrucosa pages 641 and 643)