Lycoperdales

The Lycoperdales are a now outdated order of fungi. The order included some well-known types such as the giant puffball, the earthstars, and other tuberous fungi. They were defined as having epigeous basidiomes, a hymenium present, one to three layers in the peridium (outer wall), powdery gleba, and brown spores.

The restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny has divided this order. Most of its members have been placed in family Lycoperdaceae of order Agaricales, while the earthstars and similar species now occupy family Geastraceae of order Phallales.

Lycoperdales