#earthball__false_truffle__falsetruffle__puffball__hard-skinned_puffball  any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
  supertype:  fungus  a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores
  member of:  genus_Scleroderma
  subtype:  Scleroderma_citrinum__Scleroderma_aurantium  an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts
  subtype:  Scleroderma_flavidium__star_earthball  an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel
  subtype:  Scleroderma_bovista__smooth_earthball  an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity

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