| name | Amanita grisella |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | E.-J. Gilbert & Cleland |
| english name | "Australian Mystery Amanita" |
| intro | The following description based on that of Reid (1980). |
| cap | The cap of Amanita grisella is mottled light olive with light streaks. The volva is an incomplete, thin, felty-pulverulent layer; its color is unknown. |
| gills | The gills were not described. |
| stem | The stem is 75 × 6 mm in the upper part. No other characters were recorded for the type collection. |
| odor/taste | The order and taste were not recorded. |
| spores | The spores from a spore print deposited with the type collection measure 6.9 - 9.5 × 6 - 8 µm according to Reid and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and amyloid. A second spore print in the same packet produced spores of different size-shape according to Reid: 6.5 - 8.75 (-9.0) × 6.0 - 9.0 μm and "mostly ovate or ellipsoid." Clamps are absent at base of basidia. Reid found a second spore print from which he reports nearly globose spores and at least one spore with length shorter than width (possibly a misinterpretation). Gilbert (1940) supplies five drawings of which three are close to being in lateral view and measure 8.5 - 9.8 × 7.0 - 8.5 µm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid. |
| discussion |
Originally collected in New South Wales,
Australia. As Reid (1980) suggests, we accept only the information known for the field notes deposited with the type and microscopic anatomy of the type. The habit illustration of Gilbert (1941) conflicts with the field notes and may depict a different fungus. Likewise, much of the original description must be set aside. Wood (1997) apparently misapplies the present name. Wood's species differs from the present one in at least cap color, spore size, and spore shape. For comparison, see A. griselloides D.A. Reid and A. luteolovelata D. A. Reid (formerly considered a variety of the present species).—R.E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita grisella | ||||||||
| author | E.-J. Gilbert & Cleland in E.-J. Gilbert. 1941. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl.: 351, tab. 49. | ||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
| english name | "Australian Mystery Amanita" | ||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Amplariella grisella "(E.-J. Gilbert & Cleland) nob." nom. nud. 1940. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan) 27, suppl.: 168, 170, 172, tab. 44 (figs. 4-6), 45 (figs. 1-6), 46 (figs. 1-2). [The suggestion of recombination is not possible because the name was not published until the second part of Gilbert's Amanitaceae was published (1941).] 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. | 284057, 284156 | ||||||||
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| holotypes | AD [Presence confirmed by Grgurinovic (1997: 404). | ||||||||
| revisions | Reid. 1980. Austral. J. Bot., Suppl. Ser. 8: 27, fig. 15(a-b), 61. | ||||||||
| 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 from the protolog and from Reid (1980). from revision of type by Reid (1980): Holotype consisting of four basidiomes. | ||||||||
| pileus |
from Cleland's annotation of holotype (Reid 1980): mottled light olive with paler streaks. from revision of type by Reid (1980): as dried 10 - 35 mm wide; universal veil apparently forming "thin felty-pulverulent layer over some areas." | ||||||||
| lamellae | from Cleland's annotation of holotype (Reid 1980): not described. | ||||||||
| stipe |
from Cleland's annotation of holotype (Reid 1980): 76 × 6 mm, width measured "above." from revision of type by Reid (1980): as dried 20 - 50 × 2 - 7 mm, measured "near base." | ||||||||
| odor/taste | not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| pileipellis | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| pileus context | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| lamella trama | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| subhymenium | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| basidia |
not described in protolog. from revision of type by Reid (1980): poorly preserved, with those seen 33 × 8 μm; clamps apparently lacking. | ||||||||
| universal veil |
not described in protolog. from revision of type by Reid (1980): poorly preserved, with elements (in present condition) lacking any distinct orientation; hyphae thin-walled; inflated cells dominating, spherical to ovoid, up to 70 × 56 μm. | ||||||||
| stipe context | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| partial veil | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| lamella edge tissue | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| basidiospores |
from protolog—measurement of drawn spores in (Gilbert 1940): [3/1/1] 8.5 - 9.8 × 7.0 - 8.5 µm, (L = 9.0 µm; W = 7.6 µm; Q = 1.15 - 1.26; Q = 1.20), hyaline, smooth, amyloid, broadly ellipsoid; apiculus sublateral (per figure); content not recorded; color in deposit not recorded. from revision of type by Reid (1980): amyloid, from one of two spore prints: [-/1/1] 6.5 - 8.8 (-9.0) × 6.0 - 9.0 μm [Note: Unacceptable measurements, apparently includes spores with Q < 1.0—ed.] from second of two spore prints: [-/1/1] 6.9 - 9.5 × 6.0 - 8.0 μm, (est. Q = 1.15 - 1.19; est. Q = 1.17). | ||||||||
| ecology | not described in protolog. | ||||||||
| material examined | from protolog and (Reid 1980): AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES—Unkn. LGA - Milson Isl., Hawkesbury R., 14.iv.1913 unkn. coll. 6 (holotype, ADW 9318 => AD). | ||||||||
| discussion |
Reid (1980) provided an important analysis of what materials should be taken into consideration with regard to forming a concept of this species. The editors feel that his approach was appropriately conservative and reproduce it here: "A number of collections differing in both color and spore characters were referred by the original authors of the taxon to A. grisella. However, one of these gatherings, 'No. 6. Milson Island, New South Wales, 14.iv.1913' (ADW No. 9318), was designated as the holotype. This is accompanied by minimal field notes which indicate that the pileus was mottled light olive with paler streaks and that the stems were slender, 3 inches long and 1/4 inch wide above. At a later date a further note was added to the effect that the spores were 'spherical to oval 7.5 - 9 μm...'. However, when Gilbert actually published the new taxon ascribing authorship to himself and Cleland he noted that there was a watercolor which he reproduced (Pl. 49), and this formed the basis of the macroscopic description. To the latter he added the microscopic data taken from collection 'No. 6" (see above). Gilbert nevertheless noted that it was not certain that the painting executed on 15.iv.1913 was based on specimens collected on 14.iv.1913. Indeed the painting shows a gracile fungus with a smooth, naked lilac-gray cap and a shortly striate margin; there is no indication of the cap being 'mottled light olive with paler streaks' as noted for the fruit bodies of collection 'No. 6'. It would thus seem prudent to disregard both the painting and the macroscopic data of the original diagnosis in favor of the unambiguous notes of the collector which accompany the holotype, and avoid the strong possibility of a hybrid diagnosis based on two different collections which could well represent two different species." | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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