|
[ Section Amanita page. ] [ Amanita Studies home. ] [ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] Amanita subrecutita (Murrill) Murrill"American Elias' Amanita"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Based on the original description of Murrill (1941) and a type study by Jenkins (1979). The cap of A. subrecutita is 50 - 70 mm wide, surface tan, viscid, with scattered patches of volva, with a striate margin. The flesh is thin and white. The gills are narrowly adnate, crowded, and white. The stem is up to 60 x 6 - 8 mm, stuffed to hollow, cylindric, white, with a membranous, shallow cup as the volval remnants. Although unmentioned by Murrill, Jenkins reports an ellipsoid basal bulb. Murrill's description of the volva suggests a species of section Caesareae. Jenkins suggests a volval limb as might occur in A. gemmata (Fr.) Bertillon in Dechambre of sect. Amanita. The ring is placed about the middle of the stem, and is small, white and membranous. The odor is absent. The taste is mild. The spores measure 12.5 - 13.3 × 7.0 - 8.6 µm and are ellipsoid to elongate and inamyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia. Originally described from Florida, USA at the edge of a pond. Murrill uses the word "flatwoods" as the description of the forest type. Jenkins' description of the type would place it within sect. Amanita, possibly near A. gemmata or A. patherina (DC. : Fr.) Krombh. Since the margin of the cap is not striate and Jenkins detected a distinct bulb in the type material, it seems best to follow Jenkins' classification. The species (so far as I know) is known only from the type collection. Perhaps the most similar taxa might be Amanita eliae Quél. and A. lippiae Wartchow & Tulloss. -- R. E. Tulloss [ Section Amanita page. ] [ Amanita Studies home. ] [ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] Last changed 24 April 2009. |