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Bovista paludosaPhoto: Irene AnderssonBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Small white rounded structure attached to the substrate but strands not prominent; solitary or in scattered groups; among mosses in fens and marshes.Dimensions: 1.3-6.0cm tall x 1.3-6.0cm dia. Fruit Body: Exoperidium white smooth, thick, degrading to thin scattered greyish-white adpressed scales; endoperidium yellow-brown becoming blackish-brown, more or less pear-shaped, less commonly almost spherical, narrowing into pedestal. Gleba olive to olive-brown. |
Spores: 3.5-5.5µm, spherical to sub-spherical. Basidia 4-spored; sterigmata 6.5-15µm. Odour: Fruity. Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Summer to Autumn. |
| Qualifying criterion: 4.6: very rare (less than 5 sites); associated with fens and upland flushes; threatened in 3 out of 9 European countries with official Red Lists |
| Justification: the three known sites are all vulnerable to inappropriate management that does not take into account the fragile nature of the microhabitat |
| Threats: changes to groundwater conditions, eutrophiciation, peat extraction, creation of open water areas, trampling of moorland flushes |
| Action Required: Site protection and monitoring against habitat loss and degradation |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records |
Total records: 22 |
| Earliest recording: 1908 | |
| Latest recording: 2005 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 27(15); 62(4); 64(1); 69(2) | |
| Pre-1960: 18 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 4 records |
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