| name | Amanita murinacea |
| name status | insufficiently known |
| author | Pat. |
| english name | "Malagasay Mouse-Colored Death Cap" |
| intro |
The following description is based on Gilbert (1941) and the notes with the type collection (PC). |
| cap |
The cap of Amanita murinacea is 70 - 80 mm wide, dry, silky, mouse-gray, plano-convex, with a smooth margin. Volval remnants are absent. |
| gills |
The gills are crowded, free, white. |
| stem |
The stem is 95 × 13 mm, cylindric, narrowing upward, with a bulbous base. The ring is rather narrow, white, striate above, skirt-like. The volva is membranous, limbate. The bulb is ovoid and 30 × 20 mm, white, tends to turn fulvous. |
| spores |
The spores measure 7 - 8 × 6 - 7 µm and are subglobose and amyloid. Gilbert's (1941) drawings of spores sometimes do not match the information provided in his descriptions. Measuring the spore drawings yields a length of 7.8 - 8.5 µm. Very few spores are positioned in side view and these show the widths to be 7 - 8.3 µm. Basidia probably lacking clamps because of its assigned section. |
| discussion |
Originally described from Madagascar, Africa in sandy soil. Gilbert (1941) believed this species was quite similar to Amanita alliodora Pat.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita murinacea | ||||||||
| author | Pat. 1924. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 6: 531. | ||||||||
| name status | insufficiently known | ||||||||
| english name | "Malagasay Mouse-Colored Death Cap" | ||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Amanita murinaceaPat. nom. inval. 1928. Mém. Acad. Malgache 6: 29. . [Superflous publication.]
≡Amanitina murinacea (Pat.) E.-J. Gilbert. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl. (1): 78, tab. 35 (fig. 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. | 271845, 284104 | ||||||||
| GenBank nos. |
Due to delays in data processing at GenBank, some accession numbers may lead to unreleased (pending) pages.
These pages will eventually be made live, so try again later.
| ||||||||
| holotypes | PC | ||||||||
| 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 is derived from the protolog and from (Gilbert 1940 & 1941). | ||||||||
| pileus | 70 - 80 mm wide, mouse-gray, plano-convex, subundulating, becoming rimose, dry, silky; context not described; margin nonstriate; universal veil absent. | ||||||||
| lamellae | free, crowded, white; lamellulae not described. | ||||||||
| stipe | 95 × 13 mm, cylindric, compact; bulb ovoid, 20 mm wide; context not described; partial veil membranous, superior? to subapical?, white, pendulous, striate above; universal veil limbate, membranous, intimately connected with bulb, pallid fulvous or white becoming fulvous, with highest point 30 mm from base of bulb. | ||||||||
| odor/taste | not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| basidiospores |
from Gilbert's data from holotype (1940): [4/1/1] 7.8 - 8.5 × 7.0 - 7.9 μm, (L = ?? μm; L' = ?? μm; W = ?? μm; W' = ?? μm; Q = 1.04 - 1.14 (-1.33); Q = ??; Q' = ??),
smooth, amyloid, globose to subglobose, infrequently[?] ellipsoid; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents not described; pale cream in deposit [Note: The most reliable information is derived from the text and illustrations (Tab. XXXV, fig. 1) of Gilbert (1940 & 1941). The best size-shape information is derived from measuring the scale drawings of spores in the above cited figure. On the other hand, of the six spores drawn from the holotype (fig. 1), at most four could be interpreted to be drawn in lateral view.—ed.] | ||||||||
| ecology | Solitary. In shady place, in sandy soil. | ||||||||
| material examined | from protolog: MADAGASCAR, REPUBLIC OF: ca. Maromandia, Marokitraro, 27.xii.1922 R. Decary s.n. (holotype, PC). | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
Information to support the viewer in reading the content of "technical" tabs can be found here.
| name | Amanita murinacea |
| bottom links |
[ Keys & Checklists ] |
| name | Amanita murinacea |
| bottom links |
[ Keys & Checklists ] |
Spore data sets and their composite
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.
Text and User-Generated Sporographs are published under the Creative Commons License.
In the case of a taxon page, image credits are on the 'image' tab.