Calvatia sp.

a puffball at Illilanga & Baroona

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Identification history

	Calvatia sp.	22 Jun 2020	Heino1
	Calvatia sp.	19 Mar 2020	Illilanga

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KenT wrote:

19 Mar 2020

I suspect you may have two species of Calvatia here. The last image may be one of the purple spored species (Calvatia cyathiformis) whereas image 4 is brown spored.

Illilanga wrote:

20 Mar 2020

Okay. They were all together but spaced apart. Happy to make two sightings... what about the first three photos? I do have a few more photos as well. I knew I should have taken samples in to Heino. ;)

KenT wrote:

21 Mar 2020

Our knowledge of this genus in Australia seems relatively poor. Species Fungorum recognises 64 valid species worldwide with 10 described since 2000. For your first four images, I don't think we can take them any further than the genus Calvatia as the fruit bodies are either immature or one needs to use microscopic features - not possible with standard CNM images. For the purple one, if you have images that show it from side on these could be useful if it shows the nature of the base - see particularly sightings 4234160 and 3397778

Illilanga wrote:

21 Mar 2020

Thanks for all the info. I don't have side on photos for the purple one. I will go back and see if any others are still there with fruit bodies plus re-do the sighting into two. I think photos 1 & 5 are a pair and photos 2-3 go together.

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