Lycoperdon radicatum Durieu & Mont.
(Rooting Puffball, Rooting Bovist)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Lycoperdon radicatum (Rooting Puffball, Rooting Bovist)
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 radicatum 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.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Pegler, D.N., Laessoe, T. & Spooner, B.M.	1995	British Puffballs, Earthstars & Stinkhorns	255pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
	Reid, D.A.	1953	Bovistella radicata (Mont.) Pat. A Gasteromycete new to Britain	Kew Bulletin Vol 8 (1): 47-48.

Lycoperdon radicatum (Rooting Puffball, Rooting Bovist) 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 radicatum (Rooting Puffball, Rooting Bovist)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Lycoperdon radicatum (Rooting Puffball, Rooting Bovist)

Extinct

EX 1952

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Lycoperdon radicatum is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)