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False Puffball

Reticularia lycoperdon

905Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb12
Mar186
Apr356
May160
Jun41
Jul27
Aug43
Sep41
Oct17
Nov11
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England64
2Norfolk England63
3Cambridgeshire England48
4Sefton England46
5Highland Scotland33
6Bristol, City of England30
7Essex England19
8Oxfordshire England17
9Worcestershire England15
10North Yorkshire England12
11Pembrokeshire Wales11
12Argyll and Bute Scotland9
13Aberdeenshire Scotland9
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland8
15York England8
728 England113 Scotland45 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
905
Peak month
April
Counties with records
83
Scientific name
Reticularia lycoperdon
Group
Microorganisms and protists
NBN Atlas records since 2000
581
Most recorded in
Gloucestershire, Norfolk
Kingdom
Protozoa
Phylum
Mycetozoa
Class
Myxomycetes
Order
Cribrariales
Family
Tubiferaceae
Genus
Reticularia
Name with authority
Reticularia lycoperdon Bull., 1790
Described
1790
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q104084147 · GBIF 5425828