name | Amanita sp-NW09 | ||||||||
author | Tulloss | ||||||||
name status | cryptonomen temporarium | ||||||||
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pileus | 33 - 79 mm wide, white, with pinkish or pinkish buff or grayish or tan tint over disc, convex, becoming planar or with margin upcurved in age, with texture of kid leather and satiny sheen, dry, not tacky to lip; context ??; margin striate (0.3±R), nonappendiculate; universal veil absent or present as large thin membranous patch or patches, white at first, becoming tan on drying in situ. | ||||||||
lamellae | ??, with decurrent lines on stipe apex, close, white to pale yellowish white in mass, ?? in side view, narrow?, rather thick, with minutely flocculose white edge; lamellulae ??. | ||||||||
stipe | 55 - 80 × 12 - 20 mm, white, darkening slightly from handling, cylindric or narrowing upward, with surface pruinose or pruinulose and sometimes breaking up into subconcentric scales, becoming easily separable from volval sack, rounded at base like ball joint of limb bone; context white, hollow; exannulate; universal veil saccate, white inside and out at first, with exterior becoming sordid with age especially near base, otherwise lacking any spotting or bruising, membranous, but sometimes rather fragile, flaring slightly above region attached to stipe base, but remaining rather close to stipe, with limb attached to stipe for about one-third limb length. | ||||||||
odor/taste | Odor lacking or somewhat spermatic. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
KOH - negative to faintly yellowish on pileus. | ||||||||
pileipellis | 65 - 95 µm thick, with surface gelatinization absent or involving only upper 5 - 10 µm (and then in or near disc region), concolorous with context and sometimes difficult to distinguish from latter, with many remnants of connections to inner surface of universal veil remaining ungelatinized and projecting from surface; filamentous, undifferentiated hyphae 1.5 - 7.2 µm wide, ??, densely interwoven and criss-crossing, often fasciculate; vascular hyphae not observed. | ||||||||
partial veil | absent. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | sterile. | ||||||||
basidiospores | [60/3/2] (7.9-) 10.2 - 13.5 (-16.5) × (6.3-) 6.6 - 9.0 (-10.0) µm, (L = 11.4 - 12.3 µm; L’ = 11.8 µm; W = 7.6 - 7.8 µm; W’ = 7.7 µm; Q = (1.25-) 1.37 - 1.76 (-1.85); Q = 1.49 - 1.58; Q’ = 1.54), hyaline, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, inamyloid, ellipsoid to elongate, infrequently broadly ellipsoid; apiculus sublateral, cylindric, often proportionately rather broad; contents monoguttulate to granular; white in deposit. | ||||||||
ecology | Scattered to subgregarious. In grass (not lawn) under Quercus garryana or in forest with Corylus cornuta, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Q. garryana. | ||||||||
material examined | U.S.A.: OREGON—Benton Co. - ca. 0.4km SW of Adair Village, MacDonald For., 14.v.1995 T. O’Dell 2719 (RET 152-10, nrLSU seq'd; WTU?). Clackamas Co. - Gladstone, Gladstone Pk., Valley View Dr. and Oakridge Dr. 4.vii.1997 Judy Roger s.n. [J. E. Lindgren 9705] (RET 261-1). | ||||||||
discussion |
t.b.d. The “kid leather” appearance of the pileus is apparently due to ungelatinized remnants of hyphae that once joined the pileipellis and the inner surface of the universal veil. In many species of Amanita these fragments are obliterated by gelatinization of a zone separating the two tissues. In Amanita sp-NW09, slight gelatinization in the disc region may be sufficient to allow the pileus to begin the rupture and spreading of the volval sac; however, over much of the surface the formerly connecting hyphae seem simply to have been ruptured leaving the projecting stubs as noted. See also A. sp-AZ15. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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