name | Amanita squamosa |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Massee) Corner & Bas comb. prov. |
english name | "Scaled Spindle Amanita" |
synonyms |
≡Armillaria squamosa Massee. 1908. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1: 3. |
images | |
intro |
The following is based on the original description by Corner and Bas (1962). |
cap |
The cap is 25 - 65 mm wide, convex to slightly concave, sepia-fuscous over the center, paler toward the margin, innately fibrillose, dry, with a nonstriate margin. The cap is closely set with small, pale, brownish, more or less conical warts over the center, diminishing in size toward the margin. |
gills |
The gills are free, subdistant, rather wide, and white to pale ochraceous. The short gills are attenuate. |
stem |
The stem is 50 - 80 × 4 - 6 mm, solid, pale brownish, sometimes sepia-brown at the base, with the entire fusiform base irregularly set with pale brown scales with slightly recurved tips. |
spores |
The spores measure 6.5 - 7.5 × 5.5 - 6.5 µm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and amyloid. The original description presents no information on clamp connections in the fruiting body; however, clamps are quite rare throughout sect. Validae. |
discussion |
This species was described from Singapore. The spindle-shaped bulb is nearly covered with recurved scales—a very striking character for a species in Amanita sect. Validae. Corner and Bas suggest the most similar species is A. tristis Corner & Bas; in addition, they point out the following: Its spores are smaller and somewhat differently shaped; its fruiting bodies tend to be larger; it lacks scales or warts on the basal part of the bulbous stipe base, while the warts present are of a different form in the two species; and A. tristis has more of a grayish tint than A. squamosa.—R. E. Tulloss |
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name | Amanita squamosa | ||||||||
author | (Massee) Corner & Bas comb. prov. 1962. Persoonia 2: 262, figs. 19-20. | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Scaled Spindle Amanita" | ||||||||
synonyms |
Armillaria squamosa Massee. 1962. Kew Bull. 1908: 2? or 3?. 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 | squamosus "scaly" | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 185745, 326115, 479203 | ||||||||
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holotypes | K | ||||||||
revisions | Corner & Bas. 1962. Persoonia 2: 262, figs. 19-20. | ||||||||
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 entirely from (Corner & Bas 1962). | ||||||||
pileus | Corner and Bas (1962): 25 - 65 mm wide, sepia-fuscous over disc, paler toward margin, convex to slightly concave, innately fibrillose, dry; context white, turning slightly ochraceous buff(?) when cut; margin nonstriate; universal veil as rather closely set warts, small, pale brownish, more or less conic over disc, diminishing in size toward margin. | ||||||||
lamellae | Corner and Bas (1962): free, subdistant, white to very pale ochraceous, rather wide; lamellulae attenuate. | ||||||||
stipe | Corner and Bas (1962): 50 - 80 × 4 - 6 mm (width measured at apex), pale brownish, sometimes sepia-brown at base, subglabrous, sometimes slightly and minutely dark-squamulose near base; bulb fusiform, 10 - 15 mm wide; context solid, white, turning slightly ochraceous buff(?) when cut; partial veil apical, membranous, whitish, rather wide, slightly striate above, with brown and often more or less denticulate edge; universal veil as rather closely and irregularly set pale brown scales with slightly recurved tips. | ||||||||
odor/taste | Odor and taste not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
pileipellis | Corner and Bas (1962): filamentous hyphae 2 - 4 μm wide, subradially oriented. | ||||||||
pileus context | not described. | ||||||||
lamella trama | not described. | ||||||||
subhymenium | not described. | ||||||||
basidia | not described. | ||||||||
universal veil | Corner and Bas (1962): On pileus: inflated cells dominating, globose to ellipsoid, 25 - 55 × 20 - 50 μm, brownish, apparently mostly in erect chains. On stipe base: not described. | ||||||||
gluten layer | double click in markup mode to edit. | ||||||||
stipe context | not described. | ||||||||
partial veil | not described. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | not described. | ||||||||
basidiospores | Corner & Bas (1962): [-/-/-] 6.5 - 7.5 × 5.5 - 6.5 μm, (Q = 1.10 - 1.30; Q = 1.15 - 1.20), amyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, seldom subglobose; apiculus proportionately small; contents not recorded; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||
ecology | Terrestrial in forest. | ||||||||
material examined |
Corner & Bas (1962): SINGAPORE: Unkn. loc., | ||||||||
discussion |
Corner & Bas (1962): "The...description is based on the drawings cited, on Massee's description, and on the type material. In the collection of ...[Corner]...there is only a drawing of this species...[combined with a drawing of A.]...tristis...." "Within section Validae, A. squamosa is very well characterized by the squarrose fusiform base of the stipe. This feature reminds one of section Lepidella, where recurved scales on the base of the stipe occur in some species. In all other characters, however, A. squamosa very much resembles the species of section Validae. At first,...[Corner]...even doubted whether A. squamosa really differed from A. tristis. However, in that species the colours are more greyish, the scales on the base of the stipe restricted to the upper part of the bulb and not patent, the spores smaller, and the fruit-bodies larger." The following figure provides a sporograph comparison between A. tristis and the present species. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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name | Amanita squamosa |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Massee) Corner & Bas comb. prov. |
english name | "Scaled Spindle Amanita" |
images | |
drawing | Prof. E. J. H. Corner - (1) Singapore, illustration from original description Corner and Bas (1962) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands. |
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