Schizostoma laceratum

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Common Name: None

Stalked puffball with globose peridium (up to 25 mm diam.), dehiscing not by stoma (mouth) but by irregular fissuring from apex downwards, uncovering spore mass; stem to 3mm wide and 3 cm long (possibly longer). In deserts. RARE. Tulostoma has definite stoma. Battarraea has outer peridium forming cap to spore mass.

Distribution map

Map based on Fungimap records to March 2000

Last modified on 28 May 2001

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