@article{24e7cfdf35bb4e2ea4e8953ae33e95cf,
title = "Notes on Japanese Lycoperdaceae. 4. Validation of Japanese giant puffball, Calvatia nipponica",
abstract = "Calvatia nipponica, an invalid name of the Japanese giant puffball, is formally validated as a new species by providing a necessary Latin description and designating the holotype specimen. Morphological features of C. nipponica including peridium, capillitia, basidia, and basidiospores are described and illustrated.",
keywords = "Langermannia, Lanopila, Lasiosphaera, Nom. illegit, Nom. inval",
author = "Taiga Kasuya and Ken Katumoto",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments We express our sincere thanks to Dr. T. Hosoya, National Museum of Nature and Science, Dr. T. Hattori and Dr. H. Neda, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, and Dr. J.C. Coetzee, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, for their valuable suggestions for this study. The first author is grateful to Dr. Y. Degawa, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Dr. A. Yamada, Shinshu University, and Dr. Y. Yamamoto, Kochi Prefecture, for their kind support to studying specimens. This study was supported in part by Nature Study Association of Tokai-mura (Tokai-mura no Shizen Chosa Kai) and the Educational Board of Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.",
year = "2008",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1007/s10267-008-0418-4",
language = "English",
volume = "49",
pages = "271--275",
journal = "Mycoscience",
issn = "1340-3540",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
number = "4",
}