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Ecology
  general type
   mycorrhizal
   saprophytic
  substrate
   soil
   woody debris
Gasterocarp - General
  opening
   apically eroding
   circumscissile
   lacerate (torn open)
   ostiolate
Gasterocarp - Stem
  thickness
   < 10 mm
   > 10 mm
  consistency
   fleshy
   spongy
   woody
  volva
   absent
   present
Gasterocarp - Endoperidium
  thickness
   < 1 mm
   > 1 mm
  consistency
   papery
   ridgid
Gasterocarp - Mouth
  number
   one
   many
  structure
   fibrilose/fimbriate
   irregularly torn
   plicate/sulcate
   tubular
Gasterocarp - Microcharacters
  spore ornamentation
   smooth or nearly so
   moderately ornamented
   strongly ornamented
   striate
   reticulate
   ridged/crested
   punctate
  spore shape
   globose
   subglobose
   broadly ellipsoid
   ellipsoid
   oblong-ellipsoid
  spore width (microns)
   2.0
   2.5
   3.0
   3.5
   4.0
   4.5
   5.0
   5.5
   6.0
   6.5
   7.0
   7.5
   8.0
   8.5
   9.0
   9.5
   10.0
   10.5
   11.0
  spore length (microns)
   2.0
   2.5
   3.0
   3.5
   4.0
   4.5
   5.0
   5.5
   6.0
   6.5
   7.0
   7.5
   8.0
   8.5
   9.0
   9.5
   10.0
   10.5
   11.0
   11.5
   12.0
   12.5
   13.0
   13.5
   14.0
   14.5
   15.0
   15.5
   16.0
   16.5
   17.0
   17.5
   18.0
  eucapillitium
   absent
   Lycoperdon type
  eucapillitium features
   septate, clamped
   septate, simple
  pseudocapillitium
   absent
   present
   elators
   spiral thickenings

North American Tulostoma & other stalked puffball species

Scott T. Bates and Robert Chapman
Species Count: 59

Agaricaceae

Calostomataceae

Phelloriniaceae