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Vascellum pratense (Pers.) Kreisel, 1962 (Meadow Puffball)

Notes (MWS) A widespread and very common puffball of all types of short grassland from garden lawns and golf courses to heaths, downs and grazed pasture.
British records 1593

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # microphotos Date Vice-county Country
Vascellum pratense Fruitbody 13 4 9 28 Sep 2004 South Devon England
Vascellum pratense Fruitbody 6 6 22 Sep 2004 West Gloucestershire England
Vascellum pratense Fruitbody 4 4 28 Sep 2004 South Devon England
Vascellum pratense Fruitbody 4 4 7 Oct 2001 East Gloucestershire England

Suggested Literature

Vascellum pratense may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
LYCOPERDACEAE
(puffballs)
Gasteromycetes (via Lycoperdaceae) Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 feeding and other relationships of Vascellum pratense (Meadow Puffball)

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