name | Amanita limbatula |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | Bas |
english name | "Bas' Limbed Lepidella" |
synonyms |
=Amanitopsis pulverulenta Peck
non Amanita pulverulenta Beeli |
images | |
cap |
The cap of Amanita limbatula is 25 - 50 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, white to creamy white, entirely pulverulent-subflocculose, appendiculate, with a slightly sulcate, somewhat inflexed margin. In young specimens and at the center of the cap in older specimens, it is covered with small, vague, concolorous to slightly paler, felted-subflocculose, adnate, flat patches of volva. |
gills |
The gills are moderately crowded, narrowly adnate to just free, rather broad to broad, whitish, and broadly rounded near the margin of the cap. The short gills are rounded-truncate to attenuate. |
stem | The stem is 25 - 50 × 5 - 8 mm, subcylindrical, pulverulent-flocculose, with a tender, appressed, whitish, submembranous-felted volval limb sometimes disappearing with age. |
spores | The spores of the type collection measure 9 - 11 (-13) × 4.5 - 6 (-6.5) µm, according to Dr. Bas, and are amyloid and elongate to cylindric. Clamps are present at bases of basidia. Spores from recently collected and well-dried material measured (9.6-) 10.0 - 12.0 (-12.2) × (4.0-) 4.5 - 5.5 µm. |
discussion |
Amanita limbatula is a species known from only a few collections made in the sandy Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern U.S.A. The dominant forest type in which it occurs is pine-oak. Its type was collected on Long Island in New York State; it has been recently found in quantity in Tallahassee, Florida. At least two collections that may belong to this species have been found considerably inland in the middle Appalachian Mountains. Bas created his stirps Limbatula to include the present species, A. parva (Murrill) Murrill, and A. praelongispora (Murrill) Murrill. Amanita limbatula is the type species of Amanita subsection Limbatulae Bas. This subsection comprises three stirpes of lepidellas with limbate volvas: stirps Limbatula, stirps Preisii (see A. preissii (Fr.) Sacc.), and stirps Roanokensis (see A. roanokensis Coker).—R. E. Tulloss |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita limbatula | ||||||||
author | Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 530, figs. 317-320. | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Bas' Limbed Lepidella" | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Amanitopsis pulverulenta Peck. 1907. Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 116: 7. 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. | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 308566, 168933 | ||||||||
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holotypes | NYS | ||||||||
type studies | Jenkins. 1978a. Mycotaxon 7: 39. | ||||||||
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 following material is derived where noted from the revision of Bas (1969); the remainder is based on original research of R. E. Tulloss. Basidiomes small. | ||||||||
pileus | protolog: 25 - 55 mm wide,white to creamy white, with surface only exposed in one older specimen and then in very limited region near margin and slightly polished, convex to planoconves; context ?; marginuniversal veil entirely covering pileus of younger specimens with pulverulent-subfloccose layer, concolorous with pileus, in older specimens as small vague concolorous or slightly paler felted-subflocculose adnate flat patches. | ||||||||
lamellae | protolog: narrowly adnate to just free, moderately crowded, whitish, up to 5 mm broad, ventricose to subventricose, broadly rounded at pileus margin, with edge entire and subfloccose to glabrous; lamellulae rounded truncate (the shorteset) to attenuate (the longer). | ||||||||
stipe | protolog: 25 - 50 × 5 - 8 mm, subcylindric; bulb submarginate to marginate, , turbinate to subglobose to elongate-ellipsoid, ca. 10 - 20 × 10 - 14 mm; context solid; partial veil thin, incoherent, apicsl, stirate above, leaving few remnants or entirely detersile; universal veil as weakly structured, appressed, whitish submembranous-felted limb, up to 2 mm wide on bulb margin, sometimes disappearing with age. | ||||||||
odor/taste | protolog: Odor weak or lacking. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
pileipellis | protolog: as dense layer of interwoven hyphae, gelatinizing near surface; filamentous hyphae 2 - 8 μm wide; vascular hyphae plentiful in interior. | ||||||||
pileus context | not reported. | ||||||||
lamella trama | protolog: bilateral; probably with terminal inflated cells. | ||||||||
subhymenium | protolog: ramose, becoming more or less coralloid with age. | ||||||||
basidia | protolog: 40 - 50 × 9 - 10 μm, 4- or 2-sterigmate; clamps rather frequent. | ||||||||
universal veil | protolog: On pileus: with elements irregularly disposed, pale yellow to yellow in alkaline solution; filamentous hyphae 3 - 8 μm wide, rather abundant, branching, densest near upper surface; inflated cells globose to ellipsoid )up to 50 × 30 μm, terminal singly or in short chains) or up to 80 × 40 μm (elongate to clavate), with elongate-ellipsoid and clavate cells most common near upper surface. On stipe base: similar to tissue on pileus. | ||||||||
stipe context | protolog: longitudinally acrophysalidic; acrophysalides up to 300 × 40 μm, often with belts of colorless incrustations. | ||||||||
partial veil | not recorded. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue |
few scattered, loose hyphae. sterile. | ||||||||
basidiospores |
protolog: [70/4/1] 9.0 - 11.0 (-13.0) × 4.5 - 5.0 (-6.5) μm, (Q = 1.70 - 2.20 (-2.40); Q = 1.80 - 2.10), colorless, hyaline, thin-walled, amyloid, elongate to cylindric, often slightly enlarged towards base or apex; apiculus not described; contents subguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. from type study of Jenkins (1978a): [-/-/1] 8.6 - 10.2 × 3.9 - 5.5 μm, (Q = 1.83 - 2.2; Q' = 1.93), hyaline, thin-walled, amyloid, elongate to cylindric, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric, truncate-conic; contents guttulate; color in deposit not recorded. NG/RET: [37/1/1] (9.6-) 10.0 - 12.0 (-12.2) × (4.0-) 4.5 - 5.5 μm, (L = 11.0 μm; W = 4.9 μm; Q = (2.0-) 2.09 - 2.44 (-2.63); Q = 2.26), hyaline, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, amyloid, cylindric, adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents dominantly monoguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||
ecology |
protolog: Terrestrial. Pennsylvania: Along grassy path near Quercus. | ||||||||
material examined |
protolog: U.S.A.: NEW YORK—Sussex Co. (Long Isl.) - Port Jefferson, 18.viii.1906 C. H. Peck s.n. (holotype, NYS). from type study of Jenkins (1978a): U. S. A.: NEW YORK— Suffolk Co. (Long Isl.) - Port Jefferson, 18.viii.1906 C. H. Peck s.n. (holotype, NYS). NG/RET: U.S.A.: PENNSYLVANIA—Luzerne Co. - Hunlock Crk. [41.9321° N/ 76.0824° W, 430m], 9.viii.2013 David Wasilewski s.n. [mushroomobserver.org 142433] (RET 569-3). | ||||||||
discussion |
protolog: "In the box with the type material I found five specimens, one clearly distinct from the others because of a long slender stem without a volval limbon the bulb, narrow, very crowded gills, and microscopical differences. "Inside the type box I found a loose label similar to that on the outside, except that the word 'type' was lacking, the date was 'Aug. 1906' instead of '18 Aug. 1906' and the words 'Long stem form' were added. Apparently two collections had been put together. The loose label probably belongs to the aberrant specimen (see A. longipes [Bas 1969] p. 459). "It is possible that, in the tissue at the surface of the patches on the cap, hyphae are still more abundant than in the tissue depicted in [Bas 1969] fig. 318, but the outer surface is moulded and hard to analyze. "Because of the elongate to cylindric spores, the presence of clamps, and the formation by the volva of a slight limb at the base of the stem, A. limbatula must be placed near A. praelongispora and A. parva. It differs from both in having a less gelatinized pileipellis in connection with which the cap is almost completely covered with pulverulent remnants of the volva, and also in having a very incoherent partial veil that does not form a true ring. Moreover, A. limbatula has shorter and less elongate spores than A. praelongispora and a very thin, appressed, somewaht irregular margin of the cap instead of a sterile, projecting margin as in A. parva." | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss and N. Goldman | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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name | Amanita limbatula |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | Bas |
english name | "Bas' Limbed Lepidella" |
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photo | David Wasilewski - (1-2) Hunlock Creek, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. [Note: The original of the photos can be found on mushroomobserver.org here.] |
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