name | Amanita pallidofumosa |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | A. E. Wood |
english name | "Smoky Slender Caesar" |
intro |
The following is largely based on the original description (Wood 1997). |
cap |
The cap of Amanita pallidofumosa is up to 110 mm wide, pale smoky gray to pale gray brown, convex then flattened convex, sometimes depressed at the center, smooth, dry, thin-fleshed near the margin, with a striate margin. Some volval remains are present that are white, membranous, flat, and irregular. |
gills |
The gills are free to adnexed, crowded, thin, white to off-white, with a white edge. |
stem |
The stem is up to 125 × 13 mm, equal or slightly narrowing upward, smooth and white above, off-white and finely hairy below. The ring is membranous and persistent, skirt-like, striate on the upper surface, and white to grayish. The base is only slightly clavate, with a saccate, prominent volva, which is thick, membranous, and white. |
spores | The spores measure 10.5 - 12.0 (-13.2) × 7.2 - 9.6 (-10.2) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia. |
discussion |
Wood describes the mushroom as occurring in
sclerophyll forests and "tall open forests" from the state of
New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. A sclerophyll forest in the Australian bush
is a forest of hard-leaved plants including Eucalyptus in the
overstory (wikipedia). This species is apparently unique in being very similar to the species of Stirps Hemibapha, but (unlike all other taxa in that Stirps) lacking clamps at the bases of basidia. This seems so unusual that a revision of the type seems important.—R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita pallidofumosa | ||||||||
author | A. E. Wood. 1997. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10: 751, fig. 14(a-e). | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Smoky Slender Caesar" | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 443185 | ||||||||
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holotypes | UNSW | ||||||||
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 based entirely on the protolog of this species, which does not meet contemporary standards for Amanita taxonomy. | ||||||||
basidiospores |
from protolog: [-/-/-] 10.5 - 12.0 (-13.2) × 7.2 - 9.6 (-10.2) μm, (Q = 1.27 - 1.52), inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid.
[Note: Data provided is not sufficient to permit generation of a sporograph.—ed.] from spore drawings in protolog: [2/1/1] 12.6 - 13.1 × 7.2 - 7.4 μm, (Q = 1.74 - 1.75). | ||||||||
ecology | from protolog: In tall, open forest. | ||||||||
material examined | from protolog: AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES—Woolgoolga, Conglomerate St. For., 21.iii.1983 J. J. Bruhl s.n. (holotype, UNSW 83/243B). | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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