name | Amanita eriophora |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Berk.) E.-J. Gilbert |
english name | "Darjeeling Lepidella" |
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intro | The description of Amanita eriophora is derived from that of Bas (1969). |
cap | The cap of A. eriophora is 90 - 220 mm wide, hemispherical at first, becoming convex with a flattened center, then plane or slightly concave, sometimes with an umbo, slightly viscid, appendiculate, with a nonstriate margin. The cap is pale dingy brown to pale brownish or yellowish. The flesh is white, pinkish with age, firm, and very slowly but distinctly rufescent on bruising or cutting. The volva is present at first as a subfloccose-felted grayish umber volva of unequal thickness, later on with grayish brown, subfloccose-felted, adnate, large, flat patches and scattered, irregular more or less conical warts. |
gills | The gills are free, with slight decurrent lines on the top of the stem, crowded, and white at first and then cream. |
stem | The stem is 120 - 160 × 15 - 22 mm, solid, firm, and whitish below the grayish-brown remnants of a friable ring. Its bulb is roughly turnip-shaped and sometimes has a very distinct raised rim around its edge. At first the bulb is covered with material of the grayish brown, felted-floccose volva. |
odor/taste | The smell of this species is described as faint, but "nutty." The taste is not recorded. |
spores | The spores measure (8.0-) 9.0 - 11.0 (-12.0) × 7.0 - 9.5 (-10.5) µm and are amyloid and broadly ellipsoid. Clamps were not found at bases of basidia. |
discussion |
Amanita eriophora was originally described from West Bengal, India, and has also been reported from Singapore (Corner & Bas, 1962). Little is known concerning its possible symbionts. Bas based his stirps Eriophora on this species. In addition, he included in stirps Eriophora A. berkeleyi (Hook. f. in Berk.) Bas and A. borneensis Boedijn.—R. E. Tulloss |
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name | Amanita eriophora | ||||||||||||||||||||
author | (Berk.) E.-J. Gilbert. 1941. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl. (2): 230. | ||||||||||||||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||||||||||||||
english name | "Darjeeling Lepidella" | ||||||||||||||||||||
synonyms |
≡Agaricus (Amanita) eriophorus Berk. 1850. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 43.
≡Amanitopsis eriophora (Berk.) Sacc. 1887. Syll. Fung. 5: 26.
≡Pseudofarinaceus eriophorus (Berk.) Kuntze. 1891. Rev. Gen. Plant. 2: 868.
≡Vaginata eriophora (Berk.) Kuntze. 1898. Rev. Gen. Plant. 3(2): 539. 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
etymology | eriophorus, "wool-bearing" | ||||||||||||||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 517341, 202377 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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holotypes | K | ||||||||||||||||||||
revisions |
Corner & Bas. 1962. Persoonia 2: 253, figs. 12-15. Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 480, figs. 238-241. | ||||||||||||||||||||
selected illustrations | E.-J. Gilbert. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl.: tab. 7 (fig. 3). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 data below is derived from the revisions of Corner & Bas (1962) and of Bas (1969). Bas (1969): Basidiomes large to very large, relatively slender. | ||||||||||||||||||||
pileus | Bas (1969): 90 - 200 mm wide, pale dingy brown to pale brownish or yellowish, hemispheric then convex to planar or slightly concave, sometimes umbonate, subviscid; context white, slowly rufescent, fleshy; margin nonsulcate, appendiculate; universal veil at first as complete grayish umber covering of variable thickness, later as small to large grayish brown floccose-felted patches or subconic warts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
lamellae | Bas (1969): free, crowded, white at first, becoming cream, with edge "thinly felted or appendiculate with greyish lilac remants of partial veil when young"; lamellulae attenuate. | ||||||||||||||||||||
stipe | Bas (1969): 140 - 200 × 20 - 30 mm, narrowing upward, with upper two-thirds covered by greyish lilac "floccose-felted remains of friable partial veil," with lower part pale, slightly rufescent with age; bulb more or less napiform, radicating, immarginate to marginate, 30 - 70 × 35 -55 mm; context white, rufescent, apparently solid (per figures); partial veil friable; universal veil as floccose-felted covering of bulb (at least at first), grayish umber, adnate, "forming rim or even limb at top of bulb, but sometimes bulb glabrescent." | ||||||||||||||||||||
odor/taste | Corner & Bas (1962), Bas (1969): Odor faint, slightly nutty. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
pileipellis | Bas (1969): gelatinized near surface; filamentous hyphae 2 - 8 μm wide, brownish, interwoven to subradially arranged; vascular hyphae scattered, broad. | ||||||||||||||||||||
pileus context | not described. | ||||||||||||||||||||
lamella trama | Bas (1969): "insufficiently studied." | ||||||||||||||||||||
subhymenium | Bas (1969): cellular. | ||||||||||||||||||||
basidia |
Bas (1969): 40 - 50 × 11 - 13 μm, 4-sterigmate; clamps absent. RET: 42± × 11.0± μm, 4-sterigmate; no clamps observed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
universal veil | Bas (1969): On pileus: elements irregularly disposed; filamentous hyphae 5 - 15 (-20) μm wide, abundant, repeatedly branching, with many branching elements inflated; inflated cells abundant, globose to ellipsoid to clavate, up to 100 × 75 μm, with brown contents, terminal singly or in short chains; vascular hyphae broad common; clamps absent. On stipe base: not described. | ||||||||||||||||||||
stipe context | Bas (1969): longitudinally acrophysalidic; acrophysalides up to 300 × 35 μm; clamps absent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
partial veil | not described. | ||||||||||||||||||||
lamella edge tissue | Bas (1969): as sterile edge; inflated cells clavate, colorless, 35 - 60 × 12 - 25 μm, predominant in tissue. | ||||||||||||||||||||
basidiospores |
Corner & Bas (1962): [-/-/-] 9.1 - 10.9 × 7.3 - 9.3 μm,
(Q = 1.10 - 1.25; Q = 1.20), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, broadly ellipsoid, sometimes subglobose; apiculus proportionately rather large; contents cloudy-oleaginous; color in deposit not reported. [Fresh spores are reported to measure 9.0 - 10.0 × 7.0 - 8.5 μm.—ed.] Bas (1969): [20/2/2] (8.0-) 9.0 - 11.0 (-12.0) × 7.0 - 9.5 (-10.5) μm, (Q = 1.05 - 1.25; Q = 1.15 - 1.20), colorless, hyaline, thin-walled, amyloid, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid; apiculus not described; contents cloudy; color in deposit not recorded. RET & CRC: [40/1/1] (6.8-) 8.8 - 10.5 (-12.6) × (6.0-) 7.8 - 10.2 (-11.5) μm, (L = 9.6 μm; W = 8.9 μm; Q = (1.0-) 1.03 - 1.20 (-1.25); Q = 1.08), hyaline, yellowish, smooth, thin-walled, strongly amyloid, globose to subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, sometimes broadened at one end, adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents monoguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
ecology | Bas (1969): Subgregarious. India: Terrestrial in forest. Singapore: Terrestrial in tropical forest. | ||||||||||||||||||||
material examined |
Corner & Bas (1962): SINGAPORE: Reservoir Jungle, 26.iii.1931 E. J. H. Corner (L). Bas (1969): INDIA: WEST BENGAL—Darjeeling Distr. - Darjeeling, RET: CAMBODIA: SIEM REAP—ca. Kouk Dong, ca. Angkor Wat, | ||||||||||||||||||||
discussion |
Bas (1969): "Amanita eriophora is a large to very large, brownish species, easy to recognize because of the friable, grayish lilac partial veil leaving floccose-felted remnants at the margin of the cap, at the edges of the young gills, and especially at the upper two thirds of the stem. "Because of the brown volva consisting of irregularly disposed, brown, inflated cells on abundant hyphae, the friable ring, the rather large, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid spores, the clampless basidia, and its large size A. eriophora resembles A. borneensis and A. berkeleyi. The volva is thicker, however, and contains more broad hyphae and more conspicuous, irregular, branching elements than in those two species. These last two characters of A. eriophora in addition to the rufescent flesh and the sometimes marginate bulb suggest a realtionship with A. sculpta." This species was observed (but not collected) by Corner in Malaysia (Tebrau, Johor, 24.ix.1939). | ||||||||||||||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||||||||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||||||||||||||
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name | Amanita eriophora |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Berk.) E.-J. Gilbert |
english name | "Darjeeling Lepidella" |
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Drawings: Prof. E. J. H. Corner or Dr. C. Bas (Singapore, illustration from original description (Corner and Bas, 1962) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands.) |
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