Common Name

Stalked Puffball, False Shaggy Mane, Black Powderpuff

Family

Podaxaceae

Notes

Fungus to 21cm tall. Family formerly Agaricaceae

Looks like Montagnea arenaria when immature. Montagnea arenaria has gills when mature. Podaxis pistillaris has no gills.

Description: http://australianfungi.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/50-podaxis-pistillaris.html

Technical description (page 632) and drawings of hyphae and spores (page 633) in Grgurinovic, C. A. (1997), Larger Fungi of South Australia pages 429-431