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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 <i>Tulostoma</i> & other stalked puffball species
Scott T. Bates and Robert Chapman
Species Count: 59
Agaricaceae
Battarrea phalloides
Battarreoides diguetii
Chlamydopus meyenianus
Queletia mirabilis
Schizostoma laceratum
Tulostoma albicans
Tulostoma americanum
Tulostoma berkeleyi
Tulostoma brumale
Tulostoma caespitosum
Tulostoma clathrosporum
Tulostoma cretaceum
Tulostoma cyclophorum
Tulostoma exasperatum
Tulostoma excentricum
Tulostoma ferrugineum
Tulostoma floridanum
Tulostoma fusipes
Tulostoma giganteum
Tulostoma herteri
Tulostoma involucratum
Tulostoma jourdani
Tulostoma lloydii
Tulostoma longii
Tulostoma lysocephalum
Tulostoma macrocephalum
Tulostoma macrosporum
Tulostoma melanocyclum
Tulostoma membranaceum
Tulostoma meridionale
Tulostoma meristostoma
Tulostoma mohavei
Tulostoma montanum
Tulostoma nanum
Tulostoma obscurum
Tulostoma occidentale
Tulostoma opacum
Tulostoma polymorphum
Tulostoma pulchellum
Tulostoma purpusii
Tulostoma pygmaeum
Tulostoma rivulosum
Tulostoma rufum
Tulostoma semisulcatum
Tulostoma simulans
Tulostoma squamosum
Tulostoma striatum
Tulostoma stuntzii
Tulostoma subfuscum
Tulostoma thiersii
Tulostoma utahense
Tulostoma verrucosum
Tulostoma vulgare
Tulostoma wrightii
Tulostoma xerophilum
Calostomataceae
Calostoma cinnabarinum
Calostoma lutescens
Calostoma ravenelii
Phelloriniaceae
Phellorinia herculeana