Amanita albosquamosa

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name	Amanita albosquamosa
name status	nomen acceptum
author	A. E. Wood
english name	"White Blanket Lepidella"
intro	The following is largely based on the original description (Wood 1997).
cap	The cap of Amanita albosquamosa is up to 100 mm wide, convex then plano-convex or plane, smooth, dry, white to pale cream at the center, with a nonstriate and slightly appendiculate margin. Small or large volval remains are present as white or pale cream patches and flat membranous scales, sometimes slightly thickened.
gills	The gills are free, moderately crowded, thin, deep cream, with a white and serrate edge. The short gills are present in at least two series.
stem	The stem is up to 100 × 10 mm, white, and powdery over the whole surface. The ring is fragile, powdery, and never clearly present. The base is bulbous to top-shaped, white. Wood describes the volva as vague ridges on the upper part. We think it is more likely that the powdery covering of the stem is remains of an internal limb of a volva than remains of a powdery "ring."
spores	The spores measure (8.7-) 9.0 - 11.1 (-12.0) × 6.9 - 8.4 (-9.0) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are uncommon at bases of basidia, when found they are quite distinct.
discussion	Wood describes the mushroom as occurring in sclerophyll forests and "tall open forests" from the state of New South Wales, Australia. A sclerophyll forest in the Australian bush is a forest of hard-leaved plants including Eucalyptus in the overstory (wikipedia). Given the evidence provided in the original description, this species is probably correctly placed in stirps Grossa. —R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel
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name

Amanita albosquamosa

author

A. E. Wood. 1997. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10: 794, fig. 37(a-e).

name status

nomen acceptum

english name

"White Blanket Lepidella"

MycoBank nos.

443196

GenBank nos.

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accession	locus	voucher	source

holotypes

UNSW

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 based entirely on the protolog of this species, which does not meet contemporary standards for Amanita taxonomy.

basidiospores

from the protolog: [-/-/-] (8.7-) 9.0 - 11.1 (-12.0) × 6.9 - 8.4 (-9.0) μm, (Q = 1.25 - 1.38), amyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid.

[Note: Data provided is not sufficient to permit generation of a sporograph.—ed.]

ecology

In sclerophyll forest.

material examined

from the protolog: AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES—Sydney, Cumberland St. For., s.d. H. Spies s.n. (holotype, UNSW 87/51).

citations

—R. E. Tulloss

editors

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