name | Amanita rhodophylla |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | Beeli |
english name | "Pink-Gilled Limbed Amanita" |
synonyms |
non Amanita rhodophylla Imaz. & S. Toki nom. illeg. |
intro | The following description is based on Beeli (1935). |
cap | The cap of Amanita rhodophylla is 80 mm wide, yellowish-white, becoming satiny in drying, broadly campanulate-convex, smooth, with a lightly striate margin. The volva is absent. The flesh is white and firm. |
gills | Gills are free, pink, rounded at the stem end, and 5 mm broad. |
stem | Its stem is 120 × 7 - 11 mm, solid, white, markedly narrowing upward, fibrillose, and smooth, with a bulbous base. The stem is easily detachable from the cap. The ring is thin, membranous, white, skirt-like, and becomes satiny on drying. |
odor/taste | The species is odorless. The taste is acrid. |
spores | Beeli (whose spore measurements often appear to be incorrect) reported that the spores measured 4 - 6 µm in diameter and are globose and inamyloid. Gilbert (1940) illustrates only a single spore in the proper position to be measured; it is 8.3 × 7.4 µm which is subglobose. |
discussion |
The present species was originally described from the Democratic Republic of Congo and said to be rather abundant in forests. Since the stipe is not totally elongating, this species belongs in Amanita sect. Amanita. The watercolor of Madame Goossens clearly shows a large bulb on the base of the stipe and the volva is limbate rather than saccate. Indeed the specimen suggests A. virosa Lam. as Gilbert (1941) observes. Other species known to have both bulbs, membranous limbs, and inamyloid spores fall in Amanita series Pudicae (from Africa) and Amanita series Umbrinellae (from South America and Australia). Some of the South American species are associated with trees from the Caesalpinaceae in tropical forests. Others are known from the southern cone of South America associated with Southern Beech (Nothofagus). The Australian species are known to be associated at least with eucalypts. It is interesting to speculate that these taxa probably of Gondwanan origin may be relictual descendents of ancestors in section Amanita and basal to section Caesarea) as we know the sections today.—R. E. Tulloss |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita rhodophylla | ||||||||
author | Beeli. 1931. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 63: 103, pl. 7 (fig. 1). | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Pink-Gilled Limbed Amanita" | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Ariella rhodophylla (Beeli) E.-J. Gilbert. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl. (1): 76, tab. 10 (fig. 4).
non Amanita rhodophylla Imaz. & S. Toki. nom. illeg. 1955. Bull. Gov. Forest. Exp. Sta. 79: 2, fig. 2 [in text], pl. 2 (fig. 2). [Posterior homonym. ICBN §53.1] The editors of this site owe a great debt to Dr. Cornelis Bas whose famous cigar box files of Amanita nomenclatural information gathered over three or more decades were made available to RET for computerization and make up the lion's share of the nomenclatural information presented on this site. | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 172804 | ||||||||
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The following text may make multiple use of each data field. The field may contain magenta text presenting data from a type study and/or revision of other original material cited in the protolog of the present taxon. Macroscopic descriptions in magenta are a combination of data from the protolog and additional observations made on the exiccata during revision of the cited original material. The same field may also contain black text, which is data from a revision of the present taxon (including non-type material and/or material not cited in the protolog). Paragraphs of black text will be labeled if further subdivision of this text is appropriate. Olive text indicates a specimen that has not been thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text where data is missing or uncertain. The following material is derived from the protolog of the present taxon and from (Gilbert 1940 & 1941). | ||||||||
pileus | from protolog: 80 mm wide, yellowish white, campanulate to convex to plano-convex, glabrous; context white, fleshy, firm; margin lightly striate;universal veil not described. | ||||||||
lamellae | from protolog: free, density not described, pink-tinted, 5 mm broad, rounded on end nearest stipe; lamellulae not described. | ||||||||
stipe | from protolog: 120 × 7 - 11 μm, white, glabrous, fibrous, easily detachable from pileus; bulb present; context solid, white; partial veil superior, white, membranous, thin, skirt-like; universal veil limbate (per figure), membranous, ample, white, then becoming brownish black. | ||||||||
odor/taste | from protolog: Odor acrid, bitter. Taste not described. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
pileipellis | not described. | ||||||||
pileus context | not described. | ||||||||
lamella trama | not described. | ||||||||
subhymenium | not described. | ||||||||
basidia | not described. | ||||||||
universal veil | not described. | ||||||||
stipe context | not described. | ||||||||
partial veil | not described. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | not described. | ||||||||
basidiospores |
from protolog: 4 μm wide, hyaline, smooth, globose. [Note: Beeli's spore measurements often are contradicted by more recent data. We often turn to the spore illustrations of Gilbert (1940) to get a more accurate idea of spore shape and size. No sporograph can be generated.] Gilbert (1940): [1/1/1] 8.3 × 7.5 μm, (Q = 1.11). [Note: Only one spore in Gilbert's illustration is in lateral view. No sporograph can be generated.] | ||||||||
ecology | from protolog: Rather abundant. On soil in forest. | ||||||||
material examined | from protolog: CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: PROV. EQUATEUR—Territoire Lisala - Binga [2°23'41" N/ 20°25'25" E, 361 m], xii.1928 Goossens 856 (holotype, BR). | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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