name | Amanita subrecutita |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | (Murrill) Murrill |
english name | "American Elias' Amanita" |
intro |
Based on the original description of Murrill (1941) and a type study by Jenkins (1979). |
cap |
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. |
gills |
The gills are narrowly adnate, crowded, and white. |
stem |
The stem is up to 60 × 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. |
odor/taste |
The odor is absent. The taste is mild. |
spores |
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. |
discussion |
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 |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita subrecutita | ||||||||
author | (Murrill) Murrill. 1945b. Quart. J. Florida Acad. Sci. 8(2): 198. | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "American Elias' Amanita" | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Venenarius subrecutitus Murrill. 1945b. Quart. J. Florida Acad. Sci 8(2): 184. 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. | 308594, 325447 | ||||||||
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holotypes | FLAS | ||||||||
type studies | Jenkins. 1979. Mycotaxon 10: 193. | ||||||||
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 not directly from the protolog of the present taxon and not cited as the work of another researcher is based on original research by R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||
basidiospores | from type study of Jenkins (1979): [-/-/1] 12.5 - 13.3 × 7.0 - 8.6 μm, (Q = 1.54 - 1.90; Q' = 1.75), hyaline, thin-walled, nonamyloid, ellipsoid to elongate, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents guttulate; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||
material examined | from type study of Jenkins (1979): U. S. A.: FLORIDA— Alachua Co. - Gainesville, 26.iii.1944 W. A. Murrill F 17996 (holotype, FLAS). | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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