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Calvatia
Calvatia is a genus of puffball mushrooms that includes the giant puffball C. gigantea. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the puffballs, Calvatia spp. are now placed in the family Lycoperdaceae of the order Agaricales.
Most species in the genus Calvatia are edible when young, though some are best avoided, such as Calvatia fumosa, which has a very pungent odor.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Langermannia
sectionLangermannia
Hippoperdon
sectionHippoperdon
Calvatia
sectionCalvatia
Sculpta
sectionSculpta
Calvatia bovista
speciesCalvatia bovista
Cretacea
sectionCretacea
Calvatia guzmanii
speciesCalvatia guzmanii
Calvatia lepidophora
speciesCalvatia lepidophora
Calvatia flava
speciesCalvatia flava
Calvatia sp. 'PR03'
speciesCalvatia sp. 'PR03'
Calvatia sp. 'PR04'
speciesCalvatia sp. 'PR04'
Calvatia sinclairii
speciesCalvatia sinclairii
Calvatia fusca
speciesCalvatia fusca
Calvatia hesperia
speciesCalvatia hesperia
Calvatia sp. 'PR05'
speciesCalvatia sp. 'PR05'
Calvatia sp. 'PR01'
speciesCalvatia sp. 'PR01'
Calvatia pygmaea
speciesCalvatia pygmaea
Calvatia complutensis
speciesCalvatia complutensis
Calvatia leiospora
speciesCalvatia leiospora
Calvatia capensis
speciesCalvatia capensis
Calvatia incerta
speciesCalvatia incerta
Calvatia sp. 'PR02'
speciesCalvatia sp. 'PR02'
Calvatia paradoxa
speciesCalvatia paradoxa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 57693.