Amanita arizonica has been found in the U.S. in Cochise County, Arizona, where some of the associated plants were Arizona Cypress, Pine, Oak, Walnut, and Century Plant.—R. E. Tulloss
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name
Amanita arizonica
author
A. H. Smith nom. prov.
name status
nomen provisorum
english name
"Arizona Lepidella"
GenBank nos.
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intro
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thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text
where data is missing or uncertain.
The following material is based on original research of R. E. Tulloss.
odor/taste
not recorded.
macrochemical tests
none recorded.
basidiospores
per notes of A. H. Smith: “8 - 11 × 5 - 6 µm, [(est. Q = 1.75),] amyloid.” [Note: No sporograph can be generated from this limited data.—ed.]
ecology
Solitary. At ?? m elev. Under Cupressus arizonica, Pinus engelmannii, Quercus, Juglans major, and Agave deserti.
material examined
U.S.A.:
ARIZONA—Cochise Co. - ca. Portal, S fork of Cave Crk. 17.viii.1958 J. L. Lowe & Robert L. Gilbertson s.n. (MICH).
discussion
The whole specimen in the 17.viii.1958 collection
suggests Amanita
cokeri (E.-J. Gilbert & Kühn.) E.-J. Gilbert,
but the spores are too small for that species or for the
related A. subcokeri.
Each spore data set is intended to comprise a set of measurements from a single specimen made by a single observer;
and explanations prepared for this site talk about specimen-observer pairs associated with each data set.
Combining more data into a single data set is non-optimal because it obscures observer differences
(which may be valuable for instructional purposes, for example) and may obscure instances in which
a single collection inadvertently contains a mixture of taxa.