Bovista colorata

Bovista colorata is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is found in eastern North America and northwestern South America.[2] The puffball was first described as Lycoperdon coloratum by Charles Horton Peck in 1878, from collections made in Sand Lake, New York.[3] Hanns Kreisel transferred it to the genus Bovista by in 1964. The golden to orange-yellow fruitbodies are 13–30 cm (5.1–11.8 in) in diameter. Its spores are spherical, measuring 3.5–5 μm in diameter.[2]

Bovista colorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Agaricaceae
Genus:
Bovista
Species:
B. colorata
Binomial name
Bovista colorata
(Peck) Kreisel (1964)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lycoperdon coloratum Peck (1878)

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Bovista colorata (Peck) Kreisel". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  2. Kreisel H. (1964). "Vorläufige Übersicht der Gattung Bovista". Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (in German). 69: 196–211 (see p. 201).
  3. Peck CH. (1878). "Report of the Botanist (1875)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 29: 29–82 (see p. 46).


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