Description:
puffball
Fruiting Body: fruiting structure up to 5.5 cm. Spore Print Color: purple brown. Spores: basidiospores 3.7-4.6 (5.4) µm, globose, nearly smooth.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: medium sized puffball with little or no sterile base and purple brown spore mass

Diagnostic microscopic feature: small, nearly smooth spores

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on ground

Fruiting Season: fall