Puffball

As puffballs various fungi with more or less spherical fruiting bodies are called, in which the formation of the spores takes place in a Gleba inside the fruit body ( angiocarb ). This represents an adaptation to dry habitats and is found in various groups of fungi. This is therefore a form of convergent evolution. Accordingly, the German name puffball is unsystematic and is used for various, not more closely related to fungi part.

As puffball mushrooms following groups are referred to:

• The Lycoperdales to order related genera: Actual puffballs of the genus Bovista
• Bovistella ( root Santander Puffball )
• Riesenboviste ( Calvatia ), including the types referred to by some authors as Langermannia
• Scheibenboviste (Disc Idea )
• Stielboviste ( Tulostoma )

• Partial puffballs ( Lycoperdon ) Wiesenstäublinge ( Vascellum ) and the Sternstäubling ( Mycenastrum ) are also types of also to the Lycoperdales belonging to genera Spaltporenstäublinge ( Handkea, also Calvatia provided), called puffballs.

• As hard or Kartoffelboviste the species of the genus Scleroderma are referred from the order of Sclerodermatales, which is probably related to the Boletales.

Derivation of the name

The name is from the Early New High German word Bovist vohenfist (from " vohe " vixen and " vist " abdominal wind, ie " Fähenfurz " or " Fuchsfurz " ) is derived, but soon no longer understood and Latinized to Bovist. The original name refers to the characteristic noise in the escape of the spores powder, the name of the genus Lycoperdon also means " Wolfsfurz ".