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(Gasteromycetes) (Puffballs, Earthstars, Earthballs, Stinkhorns, Truffles Etc)

Subtaxa

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Order ELAPHOMYCETALES Trappe, 1979 (an order of hypogeous ascomycetes) 3          
Family ELAPHOMYCETACEAE Tul. ex Paol., 1889 (a family of hypogeous ascomycetes) 3 9 3 11 3 7
Genus Hydnotrya Berk. & Broome, 1846 (a genus of truffles) 2          
Species Hydnotrya confusa Spooner, 1992 (a truffle)         1  
Species Hydnotrya cubispora (E.A. Bessey & B.E. Thomps.) Gilkey, 1939 (a truffle)         1  
Family TUBERACEAE Dumort., 1822 (a family of truffles) 3          
Species Choiromyces meandriformis Vittad., 1831 (a truffle)         1  
Genus Tuber F.H. Wigg., 1780 (a genus of truffles) 2       5  
Species Hydnangium carneum Wallr., 1839 (a truffle)         1 1
Family LYCOPERDACEAE Chevall., 1826 (puffballs) 20 114 38 75 3 34
Family NIDULARIACEAE Dumort., 1822 (bird's nest fungi) 10 33 31   2 42
Family TULOSTOMATACEAE E. Fisch., 1900 (stalkballs) 4 9   4 14 12
Family GASTROSPORIACEAE Pilát, 1934 (a fungus) 1          
Species Gastrosporium simplex Mattir., 1903 (Steppe Truffle)           1
Family HYMENOGASTERACEAE Vittad., 1831 (a family of truffles) 11       5 40
Family LEUCOGASTRACEAE Moreau ex Fogel, 1979 (a family of basidiomycete truffles) 1          
Species Leucogaster liosporus R. Hesse, 1882 (a basidiomycete truffle)           1
Family OCTAVIANIACEAE Locq. ex Pegler & T.W.K. Young, 1979 (a family of gasteromycetes) 5         7
Family RHIZOPOGONACEAE Gäum. & C.W. Dodge, 1928 (beard truffles) 5          
Genus Rhizopogon Fr. & Nordholm, 1817 (beard truffles) 5 15   5 3 9
Family SCLERODERMATACEAE Corda, 1842 (earthballs and dyeballs) 8 18 51 35 7 21
Family GEASTRACEAE Corda, 1842 (earthstars) 16 71 20 6 15 91
Family HYSTERANGIACEAE E. Fisch., 1899 (a family of truffles) 3       1 3
Family PHALLACEAE Corda, 1842 (stinkhorns) 8 48   5 5 12
Genus Gautieria (a genus of false truffles) 1       3 1
Species Gymnomyces xanthosporus (Hawker) A.H. Sm., 1962 (a truffle)           4
Species Zelleromyces stephensii (Berk.) A.H. Sm., 1962 (a truffle)           3
Family STEPHANOSPORACEAE Oberw. & E. Horak, 1979 (a family of false truffles) 1          
Species Stephanospora caroticolor (Berk.) Pat., 1914 (a false truffle)           3
Order ENDOGONALES Moreau ex R.K. Benj., 1979 (pea truffles) 1       2  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1986 Non-gilled Fungi
Demoulin, V. & Marriott, J.V.R., 1980 Key to the Gasteromycetes of Great Britain
Hawker, L.E., 1954 British Hypogeous Fungi
Henderson, D.M., Orton, P.D. & Watling, R., 1969 Agarics and Boleti - Introduction
Pegler, D.N., Laessoe, T. & Spooner, B.M., 1995 (Basidiomycete species only) British Puffballs, Earthstars & Stinkhorns
Pegler, D.N., Spooner, B.M. & Young, T.W.K., 1993 British Truffles: a Revision of British Hypogeous Fungi

General Works

Dennis, R.W.G., Orton, P.D. & Hora, F.B., 1960 New Checklist of British Agarics and Boleti
Hawker, L.E., 1974 Revised annotated checklist of British Hypogeous fungi
Henrici, A., 2001 Update on Roger Phillips' Mushrooms and other fungi of Gt. Britain & Europe, part 1: Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes & Jelly Fungi
Orton, P.D., 1960 New Checklist of British Agarics and Boleti - Part III

(Gasteromycetes) may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with (Gasteromycetes):

Gasteromycetes may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

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