order Lycoperdales
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Related to order Lycoperdales: puffball, Sclerodermatales, Lycoperdaceae, Lycoperdon, Gasteromycetes
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| Noun | 1. | order Lycoperdales - small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars fungus order - the order of fungi class Gasteromycetes, class Gastromycetes, Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes - fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi family Lycoperdaceae, Lycoperdaceae - a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs family Geastraceae, Geastraceae - a family of earthstar fungi belonging to the order Lycoperdales |