Boletales Puffballs Truffles Stinkhorns Birds nests

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BoletalesPuffballsTrufflesStinkhornsBirds
nests
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BoletalesBoletaceae - Boletus
Reticulate (netted) stalk Bluing
reaction spores - brown to olive brown pores -
smaller, symmetrical
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Boletaceae
spores - brown to olive brown pores - brown
to olive brown cracked cap
Xerocomus (Boletus)
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Boletaceae

• medium to large
• Boletus-like
• mushroom
• Stalk with darkly
• pigmented scabers
• spores - brown

Leccinum
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SuillaceaeSuillus

• Slimy cap
• Partial veil
• Radially arranged irregular pores
• Stalk with glandular dots
• spores - brown

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SuillaceaeRhizopogon

• no sterile tissue
• (columella)
• spongy potato
• animal dispersed

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Sclerodermataceae

• hard puffball
• thick peridium
• inky spores

Scleroderma
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Sclerodermataceae
Pisolithus

• dead mans foot
• capable of fruiting
• through hard substrates
• EcM
• inky spores
• spores released by
• disintegration of peridium

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AgaricalesLycoperdaceae

• Lycoperdon

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Lycoperdaceae

• Calvatia giant puffball

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Lycoperdaceae

• Calvatia sculpted puffball

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Geastrales - Geastraceae

• earth star
• modified
• puffball
• spores ejected
• by mechanical
• pressure

• Geastrum

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GeastralesSphaerobolaceae

• cannonball
• spores in single
• encased gleba
• gleba ejected
• by turgor
• pressure

• Sphaerobolus

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Agaricales - Nidulariaceae

• splash cups
• peridioles
• packets of basidiospores
• peridioles connected to
• nest by cord (hapteron)
• note striations in
• inner birds nest

• Cyathus

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Nidulariaceae

• splash cups
• peridioles
• packets of basidiospores
• no cord (hapteron)
• peridioles often in mucilage

• Nidula

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Phallales - Phallaceae

• stinkhorn
• egg stage
• statismospores
• arthropod
• dispersed

• Phallus

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Hysterangiales - Hysterangiaceae

• columella
• sterile tissue in gleba
• peridium thick, separable
• rubbery
• fetid odor

• Hysterangium