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Sclerodermataceae sp
Fruit-bodies are mostly epigenous (above ground), rarely hypogeous (underground), more or less spherical in shape, without a stem or with an irregular root-like stem. The peridium (outer wall) is mostly simple, rarely 2-layered, firm, rarely thin, membranous, breaking open irregularly or in lobes or decaying, revealing the gleba. The gleba typically has sharply defined basidia-bearing sectors, which are partitioned from one another by sterile veins, and in which the basidia are regularly scattered through the tissue. The gleba, which is brown or white in young specimens, turns dark purple to brownish purple in age, and crumbles to a powder of spores and disintegrating tissues at maturity. The basidia are roughly clavate (club-shaped). Spores are brown, roughly spherical in shape, thick-walled, with spines or warts, or with a network-like appearance. Spores are spread by wind, by predators, or are washed into the soil by rainwater.[
The Sclerodermataceae are a family of fungi in the order Boletales, containing several genera of unusual fungi that little resemble boletes. Taxa, which include species commonly known as the ‘hard-skinned puffballs’, ‘earthballs’, or 'earthstars', are widespread in both temperate and tropical regions.[1] The best known members include the earthball Scleroderma citrinum, the dye fungus Pisolithus tinctorius and the 'prettymouths' of the genus Calostoma
spotted in PNPGerês in Malhadoura mountain
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i think you are rigth,as usual,i'll go to see your link and change the id,thanks Emma
Project Noah has 32 earth ball spottings. Scan thru this link and see if you find something similar, It does look like a common earthball to me.
http://www.projectnoah.org/organisms?sea...
I think J. has a similar looking earthball which is split open and the inside is black gleba.
These are poisonous otherwise you could also open up one and see inside.
or you can wait to let this one split open naturally. It does seem ready for that.
it seems to be a kind of earth ball,i've been searching but i didd'nt find yet a picture like this one,
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/140...
Antonio,this could be a earth ball.