| name | Amanita velatipes |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | G. F. Atk. |
| english name | "Great Funnel-Veil Amanita" |
| images |
 1. Amanita velatipes, Meadowood Twp. Pk., Mendham, Morris Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. (RET 008-5)  2. Amanita velatipes, Meadowood Twp. Pk., Mendham, Morris Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. (RET 008-5)  3. Amanita velatipes, Brookland Cemetery, South Waldoboro, Knox Co., Maine, U.S.A.   4. Amanita velatipes, Thompson Pond Preserve, Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., New York, U.S.A. |
| intro | Amanita velatipes is a rather large species of the northeastern U.S.A. and southeastern Canada. |
| cap | Its cap colors are often close to yellowish cream. The volva is usually distributed on the 80 - 120 mm wide cap as white warts. |
| gills | The gills are free, crowded, and white to pale cream. |
| stem | The stipe is up to 170 × 20 mm, has an interesting (often submedian) annulus that is pulled up into a funnel shape by the expansion of the mushroom, and has a volva that leaves a robust rolled rim around the top of the basal bulb. |
| spores | According to Jenkins (1986) the spores measure 7.9 - 13.2 × 6.3 - 7.9 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate and inamyloid. Clamps are rarely found at bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
Fruiting bodies of this species can be quite large—the larger of the "buttons" in the accompanying illustration was nearly as big as RET's fist. The species is associated primarily with Oaks (Quercus) and conifers. It appears to be restricted in range to eastern North America. Compare with A. multisquamosa Peck.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita velatipes | ||||||||
| author | G. F. Atk. 1900. Studies Amer. Fungi: 63, figs. 64-67. | ||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
| english name | "Great Funnel-Veil Amanita" | ||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Venenarius velatipes (G. F. Atk.) Murrill. 1913. Mycologia 5: 75.
≡Amanita pantherina var. velatipes (G. F. Atk.) Dav. T. Jenkins. 1977. Biblioth. Mycol. 57: 72. 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. | 534910, 503904, 560220 | ||||||||
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| neotypes | CUP | ||||||||
| neotypifications | Jenkins. 1977. op. cit.: 72. | ||||||||
| type studies |
Jenkins. 1977. op. cit.: 98. Jenkins. 1982. Mycotaxon 14: 245. | ||||||||
| intro |
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 macroscopic description is largely based on the protolog and the annotation deposited with the Bills collection at BPI. Microscopic detail comes from cited sources or (where citation is lacking) from original research of R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||
| pileus | 80 - 120 mm wide, buff or Buff Yellow (2.5Y 8.0/7.0) or Maize Yellow (2.5Y 8.5/6.0) or Hair Brown (10YR 4.4/1.0) or umbrinous brown [sometimes with tinge of Lemon Yellow (7.5Y 8.0/10.5)], with brownest tones over disc, often becoming cream color in age when predominantly yellow at first, subglobose at first, then convex, finally planar, viscid when moist; context ?; margin striate (?-0.5R), nonappendiculate; universal veil in warts and flat patches, often elongate (at least at first) in direction perpendicular to pileus radius, white to cream, with edges becoming upturned, detersile; pileipellis easily separable at margin. | ||||||||
| lamellae | free, crowded, white to pale cream, about 10 mm broad at midpoint, tapering thence to extremities; lamellulae ??. | ||||||||
| stipe | up to 170 × 10 - 20, white to cream, with brownish yellow stains in age, longitudinally striate, fibrous to floccose-scaly, cylindric or narrowing upward slightly; bulb globose to napiform; context ?, stuffed at first with loose cottony fibrils, becoming hollow; partial veil membranous, skirt-like, often opening upward at first, submedian to inferior; universal veil ocreate, with limb well separated from stipe, thick, white, at top of bulb, occasionally with additional ring of material on stipe above limb. | ||||||||
| basidiospores |
from type study of Jenkins (1982): [-/-/1] 7.9 - 9.4 × 5.5 - 6.3 μm, (Q = 1.25 - 1.71; Q' = 1.42), hyaline, thin-walled inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents guttulate; color in deposit not recorded. Composite of data from all specimens reviewed by RET & CRC: [121/6/6] (6.0-) 8.0 - 10.5 (-11.5) × (4.5-) 5.5 - 7.2 (-7.8) μm, (L = (6.9-) 8.9 - 10.1 μm; L' = 9.2 μm; W = (5.1-) 5.9 - 6.8 μm; W' = 6.4 μm; Q = (1.13-) 1.28 - 1.62 (-1.73); Q = 1.35 - 1.51; Q' = 1.44), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents predominantly monoguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||
| ecology | Subgregarious to gregarious. New Jersey: At ca. 210 m elev. In dominantly deciduous forest including Fagus grandifolia, Betula alleghaniensis, Acer, and some Quercus with understory including Cornus and Viburnum acerifolia. North Carolina: At ca. 1030 m elev. West Virginia: in mixed forest with Tsuga canadensis, Betula alleghaniensis, and Rhododendron sp. | ||||||||
| material examined |
Jenkins (1982):
U.S.A.:
NEW YORK—Unkn. Co. - Cayuga Lk. Basin, 28.vii.1897 Hasselbring 3167 (neotype, CUP-A). RET: CANADA: ONTARIO—Bruce Co. - Albemarle Twp. 11.ix.1988 J. R. Parkin s.n. [Tullos 9-11-88-ONT1] (RET 004-5). U.S.A.: MASSACHUSETTS—Berkshire Co. - Adams, 15.viii.1986 M. A. King & RET 8-15-86-D (RET 002-6). MICHIGAN—Lapeer Co. - Metamora-Hadley St. Recreation Area [42.94° N/ 83.35° W, 280-315 m], 15.viii.2011 Sandy Sheine s.n. [Tulloss SS4] (RET 489-6, nrITS seq'd.). McComb Co. - Shelby Twp., ca. Washington, Stony Creek Metropolitan Pk. [42.73° N/ 83.07° W, 250-260 m], 30-31.viii.2011 Sandy Sheine s.n. [Tulloss SS5] (HKAS, RET 489-2). NEW JERSEY—Morris Co. - Mendham, Meadowood Twp. Pk. [40°47'31" N/ 74°38'43" W, 214 m], 22.vii.1984 S. Hopkins, A. Gerenday, J. Richards, & R. E. Tulloss [Tulloss] 7-22-84-C (RET 008-5). NEW YORK—Dutchess Co. - Pine Plains, Thompson Pond Preserve, 13.viii.2011 Wm. Bakaitis s.n. (RET 494-6). Madison Co. - unkn. loc., 8.vii.2010 Eric Smith s.n. [www.mushroomobserver.org #48272] (RET 482-4, nrITS seq'd.). Monroe Co. - Rochester, 26.vii.1988 Leo J. Tanghe s.n. [Tulloss 7-26-88-LJT1] (RET 244-10). Tompkins Co. - Ithaca, 9.viii.1981 Samuel S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-9-81-SSR] (RET 339-7). NORTH CAROLINA—Macon Co. - Nantahala Nat. For., Standing Indian Campground, tr. opposite Lower Ridge Tr. [35.0786° N/ 83.5319° W, 1029 m], 10.vii.1990 R. E. Baird & Scott Gorden s.n. [Tulloss 7-10-90-H] (in herb. Carmine Lavorato, Zurich; RET 025-1). PENNSYLVANIA—Luzerne Co. - Moon Lake Park [41.2530° N/ 76.0470° W, 240-400 m], 3.vii.2015 David Wasilewski s.n. [mushroomobserver #138818] (RET 551-1, nrITS seq'd.). VERMONT—Bennington Co. - Bennington, 23.viii.1980 unkn. coll. s.n. [Tulloss 8-23-80-A] (RET ???-??). WEST VIRGINIA—Webster Co. - Cranberry River, 9.vii.1981 Gerald Bills 101 (BPI). | ||||||||
| discussion |
The smallest (and narrowest) spores were encountered
in Tulloss 7-10-90-H, which was immature when
dried—even in the 20% of the gill length closest to
the stipe, basidia were predominantly
sterile. In evaluating the collection in RET's herbarium as a group, a set of collections from Cumberland Co., Maine, U.S.A. stood out because of their unusually broad spores. These differed so greatly from the spores of the other material reviewed that we have segregated them for the moment—data from these collections is not included in the description above. The set of segregated collections is as follows: MAINE—Cumberland Co. - Cumberland Center, 22.vii.1984 S. S. Ristich 7-22-84-SSRA (RET 113-7); Cumberland Center, Rte. 9, 25.vii.1984 S. S. Ristich 7-25-84-SSRA (RET 207-1), 28.vii.1984 S. S. Ristich 7-28-84-SSRA (RET 207-2); North Yarmouth, 5.viii.1990 S. S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-5-90-SSR1] (RET 477-5). Spore data for the excluded collections is as follows: [67/3/3] (8.1-) 8.5 - 10.5 (-12.1) × (6.3-) 6.6 - 8.2 (-10.5) μm, (L = 9.1 - 9.6 μm; L' = 9.4 μm; W - 7.1 - 7.7 μm; W' = 7.3 μm; Q = (1.10-) 1.13 - 1.46 (-1.51); Q = 1.19 - 1.34; Q' = 1.30). We note that spore length hardly differs on average from spore length seen in the material determined with greater confidence to be A. velatipes. The sample size is small in both groupings. Also, neither group has been thoroughly evaluated anatomically. A comparison of the spores of the present species with those of A. multisquamosa and A. subvelatipes will be pesented in the following diagram: | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
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