Bovistella

Bovistella is a genus of puffball fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Andrew Price Morgan in 1892.^[2]

Bovistella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Bovistella Morgan (1892)
Type species
Bovistella ohiensis (Ellis & Morgan) Morgan (1892)
Synonyms^[1]
Lycoperdon subgen. Bovistella (Morgan) Jeppson & E.Larss. (2007) Calvatiella C.H.Cho (1936)

Species

As of January 2016^[update], the nomenclatural authority Index Fungorum accepts 20 species in Bovistella:^[3]

• Bovistella alpina D.A.Reid 1969
• Bovistella ammophila (Lév.) Lloyd 1902
• Bovistella atrobrunnea Zeller 1948
• Bovistella australiana Lloyd 1905
• Bovistella conspurcata (Berk. & Broome) Petch 1919
• Bovistella davisii Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella dominicensis Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella floridensis Peck 1909
• Bovistella glabrescens Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella henningsii Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella humidicola Bowerman 1962
• Bovistella japonica Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella longipedicellata Teng 1932
• Bovistella melanospora Kreisel 1993
• Bovistella nigrica Lloyd 1922
• Bovistella poeltii Kreisel 1969
• Bovistella reticulata Sosin 1959
• Bovistella rosea Lloyd 1906
• Bovistella sinensis Lloyd 1923
• Bovistella verrucosa G.Cunn. 1925

See also

• List of Agaricaceae genera
• List of Agaricales genera

References

1. "Bovistella Morgan". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
2. Morgan AP. (1892). "North American Fungi. Fifth Paper". Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 14 (3–4): 141–148.
3. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 23rd December 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-01-09.