Amanita - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella

Studies in the Amanitaceae

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This site provides data on taxa of the macrofungal, largely ectomycorrhizal genus Amanita, the saprobic genus Limacella, and the family Amanitaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes, Fungi) of which these genera are the only known members. Text is supplemented by monotone or color illustrations of the fungi wherever possible. This is likely always to be a work in progress.

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OUR THANKS: We greatly appreciate permission granted to include on the pages of this site line illustrations of C. Bas and watercolors of J. E. B Corner that originally appeared in the journal Persoonia. We are pleased to be honored with a collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship with MycoBank that has improved the quality of this site in matters nomenclatural. We are very grateful for the honor of having had material from this site used in the original sample pages (May, 2007) of the Encyclopedia of Life. Tulloss is very grateful for the opportunities of working with the Great Smoky Mountains ATBI and with the Fungus Taxonomic Working Group del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica.

We wish to offer special, and (in the case of RET) personal, thanks to David C. Tulloss (heart and brain of tullabs.com) who proposed the major rebuilding of the Amanita Studies site and conceived, designed, accumulated, and executed the database and all software that make this site possible.

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