Key Identification Features
- It has not been recorded to have a distinctive odor or taste.
- The base, which starts white and turns yellow, olive, or brownish with age, shows a less distinct reticulate pattern from rubbed-off spines.
- Peck noted this was a distinct species of Lycoperdon in the section Bovistoides, with unusually thick peridium.
- Mycenastrum corium also shares some similar features, but mature Mycenastrum corium spores are red-brown or dark-brown, while C.
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