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gasteromycetes

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An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

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The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage. Source: Internet

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