| name | Amanita luteoflava |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | Beeli |
| english name | "African Gold Slender Caesar" |
| intro | The following description is based on Beeli (1935). |
| cap | The cap of Amanita luteoflava is 30 - 40 mm wide, expanded-convex, glabrous, orangish-yellow, with the center's color more saturated, with a depressed center and a striate margin. The flesh is thin, white, and firm. The volva is absent. |
| gills | The gills are free, white, pointed at both ends, and about 3 mm broad. |
| stem | Its stem is 70 - 80 × 3 - 5 mm, cylindric, usually narrow, hollow, fibrillose, white. The ring is membranous, thin, fragile, superior, skirt-like, and white. The volva is membranous, ample, whitish. The volva is saccate (Gilbert 1941). The flesh is white and firm. |
| odor/taste | The taste is bitter. |
| spores | The spores measure 7 - 8 µm in diameter and are globose. Gilbert's (1940) spore drawings measure 10.6 - 13.6 × 9.7 - 12.9 µm and are globose to subglobose and inamyloid. |
| discussion |
The present species was originally described from the Democratic Republic of Congo where it occurs singly in dry forest. A watercolor by Madame Goossens exists, but neither Beeli nor Gilbert reproduced it. It seems plausible that this species could be placed in stirps Hemibapha but knowledge of it is insufficient to be certain at the present time. To my knowledge no one has treated this species since Gilbert and all knowledge is based on the single specimen of the type collection.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita luteoflava | ||||||||
| author | Beeli. 1931. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 104, pl. 8 (fig. 6). | ||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
| english name | "African Gold Slender Caesar" | ||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Amanitopsis luteoflava (Beeli) E.-J. Gilbert. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol (Milan) 27, suppl. (1): 75, tab. 5 (fig.) 5. 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. | ||||||||
| etymology | luteus, "yellow" + flavus, "yellow" [purer and paler yellow than luteus] | ||||||||
| MycoBank nos. | 166287 | ||||||||
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| holotypes | BR (implicit) | ||||||||
| selected illustrations |
Beeli. 1935. Fl. Iconogr. Champ. Congo 1: pl. 1 (fig. 2). E.-J. Gilbert. 1941. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl.: 223, tab. 6. | ||||||||
| 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 material is derived from the protolog of the present taxon, (Beeli 1935), and (Gilbert 1940 & 1941). | ||||||||
| pileus | protolog: 30 - 40 mm wide, orange over disc, yellow toward margin, plano-convex, with disc becoming depressed, glabrous; context white, thin; margin striate [ca. 0.5R (per figure)]; universal veil absent. Beeli (1935): generally as above, but with colors described as follows: orangish yellow, with tone more intense over disc. | ||||||||
| lamellae |
from protolog: free, density not described, white, 3 mm broad; lamellulae not described. Beeli (1935): as above and subacute at both ends. | ||||||||
| stipe |
protolog: 70 - 80 × 3 - 5 mm, smooth, fibrous, white, cylindric or narrowing upward (per figure); context hollow, firm, white; partial veil superior and pendent (per figure), very thinly membranous, white, ephemeral, striate above (per figure); universal veil saccate and fleshy (per figure), membranous, white, attached at or near very base of stipe (per figure). Beeli (1935): as above and explicitly including some data previously derived from figure. | ||||||||
| odor/taste | from protolog: Odor not recorded. Taste bitter. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| pileipellis | Beeli (1935): filamentous hyphae long(?), thin, densely entangled; secreting (oleiferous?) hyphae numerous. | ||||||||
| 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: 7 × 7 μm, hyaline, smooth, globose. [Note: Data is very different from that of Gilbert (below); past experience indicates Gilbert's spore drawings are much more likely to be reliable in reporting spore size and shape than are Beeli's protolog data. Sporograph cannot be generated.—ed.] Beeli (1935): as above and content guttulate; white in deposit. [Note: Sporograph cannot be generated.—ed.] Gilbert (1940): [2/1/1] 10.2 - 13.6 × 9.4 - 13.0 μm, (Q = 1.05 - 1.09), hyaline, smooth, regular, inamyloid, subglobose, at least somewhat adaxially flattened (per figure); apiculus sublateral (per figure); contents guttulate; white in deposit. [Note: In Gilbert's Tab. V (fig. 5), there are only two spores drawn in approximately lateral view for the present species. Hence, the widths might be a bit high (not much); and the values for Q, a bit low. On the other hand, we judge this is the most reliable data available.—ed.] | ||||||||
| ecology | from protolog: Solitary. On soil in dry forest. | ||||||||
| material examined |
from protolog: CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: PROV. EQUATEUR—Territoire Lisala - Binga [2°23'41" N/ 20°25'25" E, 361 m], Beeli (1935): CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: PROV. EQUATEUR—Territoire Lisala - Binga [2°23'41" N/ 20°25'25" E, 361 m], Gilbert (1940 & 1941): CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: PROV. EQUATEUR—Territoire Lisala - Binga [2°23'41" N/ 20°25'25" E, 361 m], | ||||||||
| discussion | The present species appears to be assignable to Amanita sect. Caesareae. Little is known concerning its microscopic anatomy. | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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