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Puffballs. Photo: Richard Hartland, Vic

Opening puffball. Photo: Gaye Drady, NW of Quambone, NSW

Open puffball. Photo: Gaye Drady, NW of Quambone, NSW

Open puffball. Photo: Gaye Drady, NW of Quambone, NSW

Spiny projections in the spore mass. Photo: Gaye Drady, NW of Quambone, NSW

Common Name

Tennis Ball Puffball

Family

Mycenastraceae

Notes

Hard skinned puffball to 20cm diameter before it opens. Family was Agaricaceae.

Description:  http://australianfungi.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/44-mycenastrum-corium.html

Technical description and drawings of hyphae and spores in Grgurinovic, C. A. (1997), Larger Fungi of South Australia pages 607-608