name | Amanita sp-43 | ||||||||
author | Tulloss | ||||||||
name status | cryptonomen temporarium | ||||||||
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intro |
The following text may make multiple use of each data field. 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 on original research of R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||
pileus | 55 mm wide, pale brown (10YR 7/3), not changing when cut or bruised, convex, dull, dry; context white, with watery line above lamellae, unchanging when cut or bruised, narrowing evenly to margin; margin nonstriate, nonappendiculate; universal veil as small warts, yellow at first, fading to cream, verruculose, detersile; pileipellis easily peeling. | ||||||||
lamellae | narrowly adnate, with short line on stipe apex, subcrowded to crowded, white to very pale cream in mass, pale off-white in side view, 4.5 - 5 mm broad, occasionally forking and anastomosing; lamellulae rounded truncate or attenuate after a “step,” arising at stipe or pileus margin or free from both. | ||||||||
stipe | 48 × 8 mm, white, browning slightly from handling, narrowing upward, not flaring at apex, decorated with concolorous chevrons above annulus and fine browning fibrils below; bulb 17 × 17 mm, subabrupt, subturbinate, sometimes suggesting an acorn; context white, not changing when cut or bruised, stuffed, with central cylinder 1.5 mm wide; partial veil white to cream, superior, striate above, browning on margin; universal veil in small warts or patches easily lost in substrate or as confluent warts or patch on lower stipe, pale yellow, verruculose. | ||||||||
odor/taste | Odor fruity. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
Spot test for laccase (syringaldazine) - negative throughout basidiocarp. Spot test for tyrosinase (paracresol) - slowly positive throughout pileus context, most of stipe context (except spots in central cylinder and lower half of bulb), some spots on lamella surface, on lamella edges, and on exterior of base of bulb. Test voucher: Tulloss 8-9-87-G. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | sterile. | ||||||||
basidiospores | composite data from all material revised by RET: [20/1/1] 7.3 - 9.1 (-9.8) × (4.9-) 5.2 - 6.3 µm, (L = 8.3 µm; W = 5.7 µm; Q = 1.30 - 1.62; Q = 1.47), ??, ??, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, pip-shaped to ellipsoid, infrequently elongate, ??; apiculus sublateral, ??; contents ??; ?? in deposit. | ||||||||
ecology | Solitary. At ca. 15 m elev. In sandy soil of Quercus or Pinus-Quercus forest. | ||||||||
material examined | U.S.A.: NEW JERSEY—Monmouth Co. - Shark River Co. Pk. [40°12’18” N/ 74°05’44” W, 16 m], 9.viii.1987 Aldo Giust s.n. [Tulloss 8-9-87-G] (RET 180-9). | ||||||||
discussion |
The small, light brown (with a yellowish rather than grayish component), nonvirgate pileus, small annulus, and universal veil at first pale yellow then fading to cream are distinctive and separate this species from small specimens of A. submaculata and the virgate-capped A. sp-10 and A. sp-54. The following figure provides sporograph comparisons of the present species with A. sp-10 and A. sp-54: | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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