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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
  4. ›Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies
  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›boletes and allies
  7. ›Sclerodermatineae
  8. ›Sclerodermataceae
  9. ›Scleroderma
Scaly Earthball
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Scaly Earthball

Scleroderma verrucosum

Scleroderma verrucosum is a basidiomycete fungus and a member of the genus Scleroderma, or "earth balls". First described scientifically in 1791, the species has a cosmopolitan distribution, and grows in the ground in nutrient-rich, sandy soils.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 179071.