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Bovista

A puffball at Lyons, ACT

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Identification history

Bovista

15 Apr 2019

Heino1

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Heino1 wrote:

16 Apr 2019

This is an example of a Bovista with a well-developed, cord-like anchoring strand. You see that well in the fruit body at the upper left of Photo 3. Soil adheres to the hyphae that make up that cable-like strand and all fruit bodies were still quite firmly attached to the ground. An attempt at an ID to species left me unsatisfied, so for now it’ll have to stay just as genus.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.069444 -35.338611
Maps Oakey Hill
Places Lyons, ACT

Species information

Bovista Scientific name
A puffball Common name
Not Sensitive
Local Native
Non-Invasive

Sighting information

16 - 100 Abundance
14 Apr 2019 12:00 AM Recorded on
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