| name | Amanita vulpecula | ||||||||
| author | Tulloss | ||||||||
| name status | nomen provisorum | ||||||||
| english name | "Little Vixen Amanita" | ||||||||
| etymology | vulpecula - little female fox, little vixen. | ||||||||
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| pileus | 43± - 65± mm wide, pale creamy tan or pale yellowish tan, broadly campanulate to convex, becoming planoconvex, ??; context predominantly white, with pale orangish tan region below pileipellis in disc, unchanging when cut or bruised, 4 - 8± mm thick above stipe, narrowing evenly to margin; margin nonappendiculate, striate (ca. 0.15R), remaining decurved when pileus otherwise nearly planar; universal veil as felted-fibrillose confluent warts and patches, detersile (at least at first) and sometimes pendent to some length from pileus margin, probably orange at first becoming pale orangish cream or orangish white, with wart surfaces appearing as disorderly mass of interwoven fibers at 12×. | ||||||||
| lamellae | free with decurrent lines on upper stipe, close to subcrowded, pale yellow-orangish cream in mass, cream in side view, pale orangish cream in exsiccata, 6 - 9± mm broad, broadest at about 75% of gill length from stipe, ??, with edges pallid and minutely fimbriate is exsiccata; lamellulae truncate to rounded truncate, infrequently attenuate, common, not between every pare of otherwise adjacent lamellae, of diverse lengths. | ||||||||
| stipe | 54 - 70± × 9 - 12± mm, with pale cream to whitish base color, subcylindric, decorated with dene orange coating of longitudinally oriented fibers suggesting an animal pelt, with these fibers fading in color with age and exposure, ??, with expose stipe surface or context longitudinally striatulate; bulb 10 - 11± × 13 - 15± mm, turbinate to obconic, with proportionately thick raised margin in dried material, ??; contents white, unchanging when cut, loosely stuffed with white cottony material or hollow above bulb, with central cylinder 3 - 6± mm wide, continuing into bulb for about half length of bulb and there stuffed more persitently than in stipe; exannulate; universal veil sometimes as thin orange exterior layer on bulb in exsiccata, apparently leaving broken ring of limbus internus on lower stipe at lower end of orange fibrillose covering of stipe and apparently connected to this covering on upper side of ring. | ||||||||
| odor/taste | Odor lacking. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| lamella trama | bilateral, divergent; ??. | ||||||||
| basidia | ?? × ?? μm, 4-sterigmate, ??; clamps ??. | ||||||||
| partial veil | absent. | ||||||||
| lamella edge tissue | sterile. | ||||||||
| basidiospores |
[60/3/2] (10.6-) 10.8 - 14.7 (-15.5) × (7.2-) 7.7 - 9.0 (-11.5) μm, (L = 11.6 - 12.8 μm; L' = 12.3 μm; | ||||||||
| ecology | Solitary or in small clusters. At 14 - 20 m elev. In deep sandy soil of Pinus rigida-Quercus or Quercus-P. rigida barrens. | ||||||||
| material examined | U.S.A.: NEW JERSEY—Burlington Co. - ca. Chatsworth, Franklin Parker Preserve [39.776° N/ 74.5354° W, 21 m], 3.xi.2013 Igor G. Safonov & Nina Burghardt s.n. [mushroomobserver.org #151168] (RET 577-5); ca. Chatsworth, Franklin Parker Preserve, jct. Bertha's Canal & Rte/ 532, 16.xi.2013 I. G. Safonov & J. Burghardt s.n. (RET 580-1); Wharton St. For. [39.7444° N/ 74.707° W, 14 m], 14.x.2013 I. G. Safonov s.n. [mushroomobserver.org #148482] (RET 577-7). | ||||||||
| discussion |
The universal veil on the cap is often much more strongly orange on the bottoms of warts than it is on top of them. This probably indicates that UV light and or drying or other effects of exposure bleach the surface of a wart that was originally entirely the color of its basal part. When first encountered, this species was mistaken for another Pine Barrens species with a paler, less dense, orange, felted covering of much of the stipe—A. dulciarii. The later species has a browner cap, globose to subglobose spores, and lacks a bulb at the stipe base—it is assignable to sect. Vaginatae. | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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| name | Amanita vulpecula |
| name status | nomen provisorum |
| author | Tulloss |
| english name | "Little Vixen Amanita" |
| images |
 1. Amanita vulpecula, Wharton St. For., Burlington Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. (RET 577-7)  2. Amanita vulpecula, Wharton St. For., Burlington Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. (RET 577-7)  3. Amanita vulpecula, Wharton St. For., Burlington Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.  4. Amanita vulpecula, Wharton St. For., Burlington Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| photo | Igor Safonov - (1-4) Wharton State Forest, Burlington County, New Jersey, U.S.A. [Note: Original images are to be found on mushroomoberver.org here.] |
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