Fruit body: more or less spherical; 20 - 35 mm tall diameter; pale rose to pink; outer surface matt, overlain with minute spines; inner wall opens by a pore to release the spores.

Stipe: rudimentary; rhizoids attach the fruiting body to the substrate.

Flesh: white.

Gleba (Spore mass): white and firm.

Spores: ellipsoid; 10 × 7.5 µm, minutely verrucose.

Notes: this puffball is recognised by its spherical shape and pale rose to pink colours. It grows on gravelly soil. Sequencing reveals that it is close to Lycoperdon pyriforme which has recently been transferred to the new genus Apioperdon. It is close to the European Lycoperdon lividum in appearance.

Support

Found on wood in sclerophyll forests.

Localite

NC 750519, Foret de La Notela, Patrick Leonard, 31 May 2019.

Reference

Cunningham, G.H. (1944). The Gasteromycetes of Australia and New Zealand. John McIndoe. Dunedin.

Vizzini A. and Ercole E. (2017) Detecting the phylogenetic position of Bovista acuminata (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) by an ITS-LSU combined analysis: the new genus Bryoperdon and revisitation of Lycoperdon subgen. Apioperdon. Phytotaxa, 299:1.