Lycoperdon echinatum Pers.
(Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball)
Genus	Lycoperdon (puffballs)
Family	AGARICACEAE (mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Lycoperdon echinatum is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Records of Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball) :
1: Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball)
7 Oct 2001	OSGR: ST88	51° 40’ N, 2° 10’ W	Vice County: East Glos (VC 33)	England

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Stephenson, C.R.	2009	Thirty Years of Mycology - a pictorial journey	Field Mycology Vol 10 (3): 90-93.

Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Lycoperdon
(puffballs)

AGARICACEAE
(mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 8 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Lycoperdon echinatum (Spiny Puffball, Hedgehog Puffball)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Lycoperdon echinatum is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)