| Bovista plumbea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Lycoperdaceae |
| Genus: | Bovista |
| Species: | B. plumbea
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| Binomial name | |
| Bovista plumbea Pers. (1795)
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Bovista plumbea | |
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 | Glebal hymenium |
 | No distinct cap |
 | Hymenium attachment is not applicable |
| Lacks a stipe |
 | Spore print is brown |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is edible or inedible |
Bovista plumbea, commonly known as the tumbling puffball, tumbleball,[1] or paltry puffball,[2] is a small puffball mushroom commonly found in Western Europe and California,[3] white when young and greyish in age. Easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha, it is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium.
- ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
- ^ Bovista plumbea Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Species: Bovista plumbea Pers. 1795 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine