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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "Australian Flour Lepidella"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following is based on the description of Bas (1969) with additional information on dimensions, colors, and textures from the original description. The cap of Amanita farinacea is about 60 - 75 mm wide, whitish (orig. descrip.), plano-convex, with margin slightly incurved, probably viscid when moist, with a nonsulcate, appendiculate margin. The center is pulverulent-verrucose from remnants of the volva; and the margin has thin, pulverulent, crust-like areas. The original description of the entire mushroom was "wholly mealy." The gills are crowded, free, moderately broad, white, and becoming yellowish. The stem is about 70 - 100 x 12 mm, equal, white, exannulate, fibrillose or mealy (orig. descrip.), with a rather thick, subflocculose volval rim at the top of a small, subglobose bulb. The spores measure 9 - 10.5 x (6.5-) 7 - 9 µm and are subglobose to ellipsoid. Clamps are abundant at bases of basidia. Amanita farinacea was originally described from the state of Queensland, Australia. Bas knew it only from the type. Bas placed the present species in his stirps Grossa (see A. grossa (Berk.) Sacc. and felt that A. farinacea might be a synonym of A. ananaeceps (Berk.) Sacc. He could find no microscopic difference between the two taxa. Indeed, all but one specimen of the type of A. ananaeceps has a destribution of volval material on a smooth (nonaereolate) pileus that is quite reminiscent of A. farinacea. Because the former species original description lacks description of colors and because the bulb of the type of the latter is badly damaged in its type, Bas hesitated to propose synonymy of the two names. It is not clear to me whether Cleland, Gilbert, Wood, etc. have redescribed the same species. -- R. E. Tulloss
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