| name | Amanita kundabungii | ||||||||||||
| author | Tulloss & Kudzma | ||||||||||||
| name status | nomen provisorum | ||||||||||||
| etymology | kundabungii Latin genitive of Kundabung. In honor of Ian Dodd ("Kundabung Kid"). | ||||||||||||
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| pileus | ?? mm wide, fragile, ??; context ??; margin non-appendiculate, striate (??R); universal veil absent. | ||||||||||||
| lamellae | free to receding, close, ?, delicate and easily damaged; lamellulae ??. | ||||||||||||
| stipe | ??, firm, ??; with surface decoration zebroid (or flame patterned) from original pale gray surface breaking and revealing white context, at least sometimes flattened horizontally; context white, ??, exannulate; universal veil saccate, unusually obconic, with outer surface white; entirely below surface of substrate. | ||||||||||||
| odor/taste | neither recorded. | ||||||||||||
| ecology | Solitary. In loose, damp soil, with Eucalyptus in semi-rainforest. | ||||||||||||
| material examined | AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES—Yarrahapinni St. For., N. of Grassy Head [30.78165° S/ 152.982° E], 15.i.2015 Ian Dodd 75621/628 [mushroomobserver #196610] (RET 679-8, nrITS seq'd.). | ||||||||||||
| discussion |
In New South Wales, this species is unique (to date)
for the
combination of a three-zone pileus, light gray
zebroid stipe decoration, an obconic volval sac, and
the 5'-TCTGGCC... 5' motif for its nrLSU
sequence. For more examples of members of the Vaginatae with the curious 5' motif of nrLSU, see the end of the techtab on this page. Although, this probably likely to change with time, it is presently the case (16 April 2017) that the the nrITS sequence derived from A. kundabungii has as its closest matches in GenBank clones of a sequestrate Amanita from Australia (see, GenBank sequences GQ925401-GQ925403). Amanita kundabungii was previously called "Amanita sp-AUS07" in these pages. | ||||||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss and L. V. Kudzma | ||||||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||||||
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