| name | Amanita thejoleuca |
| name status | insufficiently known |
| author | Pat. |
| english name | "Decary's Death Cap" |
| intro |
The following description is based on Gilbert (1941) and the notes with the type collection. |
| cap |
The cap of Amanita thejoleuca is 60 - 80 mm wide, fleshy, pale brownish yellow, with color more saturated over the center, sometimes with a central depression, plano-convex, with a nonstriate margin. The volva is absent. |
| gills |
The gills are free, crowded, white, becoming tinted with yellow when bruised. |
| stem |
The stem is 30 - 80 × 10 mm, pithy, white, subtly striate above. The bulb is ovoid to globose, marginate, 20 - 25 mm wide. The ring is membranous, superior, white, often tearing away from stem during expansion. The volva is limbate, membranous, intimately connected to the bulb, white, persistent, with highest point 20 - 30 mm above the base of the bulb. |
| spores |
The spores measure 7 - 8 × 5 - 6 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 8.9 - 11.5 × 7.8 - 10.3 µm. Basidia probably lacking clamps because of its assigned section. |
| discussion |
Originally collected in Madagascar, Africa. The original collector, Decary, provides a pencil sketch of the type. His measurement of the stem clearly includes that of the bulb which is proportionately quite large. In one of his drawings, it is clearly the shape of an egg. The other drawing shows the bulb flattened at the base.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita thejoleuca | ||||||||
| author | Pat. 1928. Mém. Acad. Malgache 6: 29. | ||||||||
| name status | insufficiently known | ||||||||
| english name | "Decary's Death Cap" | ||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Amanitina thejoleuca (Pat.) E.-J. Gilbert. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl. (1): 78, tab. 34 (fig. 4). 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. | 280194 | ||||||||
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| 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 material not directly from the protolog of the present taxon and not cited as the work of Dr. Z. L. Yang or another researcher is based upon original research by R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||
| pileus | 60 - 80 mm wide, pale brownish yellow, with color more saturated over disc, plano-convex, subirregular, sometimes with central depression, dry; context fleshy; margin nonstriate; universal veil absent. | ||||||||
| lamellae | free, crowded, white, becoming tinted with yellow when bruised; lamellulae not described. | ||||||||
| stipe | 30 - 80 × 10 mm, white, subtly striate above; bulb ovoid to globose, marginate, 20 - 25 mm wide; context pithy; partial veil membranous, superior, white, often tearing away from stipe during expansion, evanescent; universal veil limbate, membranous, intimately connected to bulb, white, persistent, with highest point 20 - 30 mm above base of bulb. | ||||||||
| odor/taste | Odor and taste not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded | ||||||||
| basidiospores |
from Gilbert's data from holotype (1940): [3/1/1] 8.8 - 11.3 × 7.5 - 10.3 μm, (L = ?? μm; L' = ?? μm; W = ?? μm; W' = ?? μm; Q = 1.10 - 1.31; Q = ??; Q' = ??),
hyaline, colorless, smooth, ??-walled, amyloid, globose[?] to subglobose to broadly ellipsoid[?]; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents not described; white in deposit. [Note: The most reliable information is derived from the text and illustrations (Tab. XXXIV, fig. 4) of Gilbert (1940 & 1941). The best size-shape information is derived from measuring the scale drawings of spores in the above cited figures. On the other hand, of the four spores drawn from the holotype (fig. 4), three could be interpreted to be drawn in lateral view.—ed.] | ||||||||
| ecology | In heaps of plant detritus. | ||||||||
| material examined | MADAGASCAR, REPUBLIC OF: Maromandia, ??.xii.192?? R. Decary s.n. (holotype, PC). | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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