name | Amanita strobiliformis |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Paul. ex. Vitt.) Bertillon |
english name | "European Pine Cone Lepidella" |
images | |
cap | The cap of Amanita strobiliformis is (50-) 70 - 150 (-220) mm wide, convex to plano-convex, sometimes with a flattened center, white to pale gray or pale brownish gray, with a nonsulcate, appendiculate margin. Thick remnants of white to pale gray or brownish gray, (sub)floccose-felted volva form crusts, patches, or coarse, shapeless, to truncate-subpyramidal warts. |
gills | The gills are white to cream, crowded, and moderately broad. The short gills are obliquely truncate to attenuate. |
stem | The stem is 80 - 180 (-220) × 16 - 30 (-40) mm, about equal, mostly thickset, white, flocculose, with subfloccose-felted volval remnants forming one or more ridges, or rows of rather coarse, mostly shapeless warts. An apical annulus may be present at first, but it is soft, fragile, and evanescent. The stipe has a basal bulb that can be rather large (up to 80 × 50 mm). |
spores | The spores measure 10 - 13.5 (-14.5) × 7 - 8.5 (-9.5) µm and are amyloid and ellipsoid to elongate. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia. |
discussion |
This species is known from Europe (at least as far north as England and the Netherlands) and the Mediterranean region. It was originally depicted from material that was probably French and originally described from Italy. The name has been misapplied around the world to a variety of other species. According to Borovička (2006), the species often occurs co-located with A. solitaria (Bull.:Fr.) Fr. in association with Tilia in the Czech Republic. Bas proposed the stirps Strobiliformis containing the present species as well as A. cinereopannosa Bas and A. centunculus Corner & Bas. Amanita marginata Dav. T. Jenkins was later added by its author.—R. E. Tulloss |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita strobiliformis | ||||||||||||
author | (Paulet ex Vitt.) Bertillon in Dechambre. 1866. Dict. Encycl. Sci. Médic. 1(3): 499. | ||||||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||||||
english name | "European Pine Cone Lepidella" | ||||||||||||
synonyms |
See Amanita nomenclator (t.b.d.). 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. | 153038, 374952, 461724, 124193, 292696, 129647, 50775, 414602, 202556 | ||||||||||||
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lectotypes |
Amanita pellita—Paulet. 1812-1835. Iconogr. Champ: pl. 156bis. Agaricus strobiliforme, Hypophyllum strobiliforme and Fungus strobilus—Paulet. 1812-1835. Iconogr. Champ.: pl 162 (fig. 1). | ||||||||||||
lectotypifications | Amanita pellita, Agaricus strobiliforme, Hypophyllum strobiliforme and Fungus strobilus—Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 519. | ||||||||||||
revisions |
Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 519, figs. 303-305. Neville and Poumarat. 1996. Doc. Mycol. 26(101): 57. | ||||||||||||
intro |
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 text is largely derived from the revision of Bas (1969) except for some additions from observations of other authors (as noted) or based on original research of R. E. Tulloss and C. Rodríguez Caycedo (as noted). | ||||||||||||
odor/taste |
Bas (1969): Odor and taste "indistinct or subraphanoid" Neville and Poumarat (2004): "...odeur subnulle ou faible de scléroderme puis désagréable; saveur insignificante." | ||||||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||||||
basidiospores |
Bas (1969): [110/13/-] 10.0 - 13.5 (-14.5) × 7.0 - 8.5 (-9.5) μm, (Q = 1.30 - 1.80; Q = 1.40 - 1.60), colorless or somewhat yellowish, thin-walled, amyloid, ellipsoid to elongate, sometimes obovoid; apiculus not described; contents refractive-guttulate; color in deposit not recorded. composite of data from all material revised by RET & CRC: [50/3/3] (8.0-) 8.8 - 14.3 (-16.0) × (4.4-) 6.4 - 8.9 (-10.8) μm, (L = 9.5 - 12.0 μm; L' = 11.4 μm; W = 7.1 - 7.9 μm; W' = 7.5 μm; Q = (1.25-) 1.28 - 1.87 (-2.07); Q = 1.34 - 1.63; Q' = 1.53), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, ellipsoid to (occasionally) elongate, adaxially flatted, sometimes adaxially concave, sometimes narrowed toward apex; apiculus sublateral, cyindric; contents multiguttulate to granular; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||||||
ecology |
Bas (1969): "Terrestrial in woods in Europe (except northern parts); preference for deciduous woods on heavy, calcareous soil." RET: France: In ditch by road through deciduous forest with groves of Fagus and Quercus. Germany: Solitary. At 50 m elev. In slightly acidic loamy sand of mesotrophic Carpinus betulus forest. | ||||||||||||
material examined |
Bas (1969):
AUSTRIA: NIEDER ÖESTERREICH—Strassfhof-Silberwald, vi-viii.1930 Th. Cernohorsky & Wallauschek s.n. (Litsch. & Lohw., Fugi sel. exsicc. europ. 95, PR).
BELGIUM: Montagne St. Pierre, 23.vi.1950 R. de Vivell s.n. (LG; L).
CZECH REPUBLIC: PRAGUE—unkn. loc., 20.vi.1966 J. Durdil s.n. (PR).
FRANCE: HAUTES PYRÉNÉES—St-Pé, RET: CZECH REPUBLIC: PRAGUE—Klíčova | ||||||||||||
discussion |
t.d.d. The two Borevička collections (BORE 41 and BORE 42) both comprise immature material; so far as we can tell, BORE 42 lacks mature basidia. We were able to find 10 spores on a section of lamella from BORE 41; these spores produced the lowest Q observed for the specimens we have reviewed to date. | ||||||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss and C. Rodríguez Caycedo | ||||||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||||||
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name | Amanita strobiliformis |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Paul. ex. Vitt.) Bertillon |
english name | "European Pine Cone Lepidella" |
images | |
photo |
Francis Massart - (1) southern France. Dr. Jan Borovička - (3) Czech Republic. |
drawing | Dr. C. Bas (1969) - (2) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands. |
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