Puff balls. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Puff balls. Photo: Heino Lepp, Australia

Common Name

None

Family

Lycoperdaceae

Notes

Puff ball to 6cm diameter.  Family formerly Agaricaceae.

Description of the genus Bovista in Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovista

Technical description and line drawings of hyphae and spores in Grgurinovic, C. A. (1997), Larger Fungi of South Australia pages 649-650