| name | Amanita luteolovelata |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | D. A. Reid |
| english name | "Yellow-Veiled Australian Mystery Amanita" |
| images |
 1. Amanita luteolovelata, note fading yellow in volva on cap, Little Hartley, Blue Mtns., New South Wales, Australia. |
| intro | The following is based on the original description of Reid (1980). |
| cap | The cap of A. luteolovelata is up to 50 mm wide, pale gray-brown, at first strongly convex, becoming flattened with a smooth margin. The cap is entirely covered with a pale yellowish, thin, felty-pulverulent layer of volval tissue which tends to form indistinct, cobwebby scales towards the center. The flesh is white. |
| gills | The gills are white. |
| stem | The stem is up to 40 × 10 mm, clavate, 15 mm at the base, white above, and creamy yellow below the ring. The ring is membranous, faintly striate, creamy yellow, and skirt-like. No volva is present at the stipe base. The flesh is white. |
| spores | The spores measure (7.2-) 8.1 - 9.3 (-10.5) × (5.3-) 6.0 - 7.0 (-7.5) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
Originally collected in Victoria, Australia. The taxon is also reported from New South Wales. Wood (1997) rejected Reid's reduction in rank of the present taxon, and RET is in agreement on this point, although, since Wood may have misapplied the name A. grisella, our reasoning is somewhat different. The average spore of A. grisella E.-J. Gilbert & Cleland is subglobose to broadly ellipsoid according to data presented by Reid as well as by my measurements of Gilbert's spore drawings. The spore width is proportionately smaller in the present species. It is odd that Reid did not make note of the difference in cap color between A. luteolovelata and A. grisella. Also, since the volva color in var. grisella is unknown, creating a variety based on volval color is an unusual thing to have done.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita luteolovelata | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author | ("luteolo-velata") D. A. Reid. 1978. Victorian Naturalist 95: 48. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| english name | "Yellow-Veiled Australian Mystery Amanita" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Amanita grisella var. luteolovelata ("luteolo-velata") (D. A. Reid) D. A. Reid. 1980. Austral. J. Bot., Suppl. Ser. 8: 29, figs. 16(a-c), 60, 99. 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. | 308567, 118372 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| holotypes | K | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 (Reid, 1980) and from original research of C. Rodríguez Caycedo and R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pileus | from Reid (1980): up to 50 mm wide, pale gray-brown fresh, brownish gray dried, at first stongly convex, becoming flattened; context white; margin smooth; universal veil as pale yellowish, thin, felty-pulverulent layer, tending to form indistinct "cobwebby scales" toward center, with scales less distinct in dried material, not retaining pigment in dried material. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lamellae | from Reid (1980): white. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe | from Reid (1980): up to 40 × 10 mm, white above, creamy yellow below partial veil; bulb clavate, up to 15 mm wide, abruptly pointed below; context white; partial veil membranous, well-formed, pendulous, faintly striate, creamy yellow; universal veil lacking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. RET: bilateral, divergent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| subhymenium |
not described in protolog. RET: cellular, apparently rather shallow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| basidia | from Reid (1980): 40 - 45 × 8 - 12 μm, 4-sterigmate; clamps lacking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| universal veil | from Reid (1980): On pileus: hyphae up to 8 μm wide, fairly frequent, thin-walled, hyaline, branched; inflated cells predominating, globose or ovoid, up to 55 × 45 μm, terminal, singly on short branches or in short chains "by inflation of hyphal segments," with such chains readily dissociating; clamps not seen. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe context | not described in protolog. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| partial veil | not described in protolog. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lamella edge tissue | from Reid (1980): inflated cells spheropedunculate or ovoid, up to 20 μm wide, terminal on short chain of hyphal segments, with these sometimes slightly inflated. [Note: This tissue misdescribed by Reid as cheilocystidia.—ed.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| basidiospores |
from protolog: [-/-/1] 7.0 - 9.2 × 5.0 - 7.0 μm,
(est. Q = 1.30 - 1.40), amyloid, ellipsoid; apiculus not recorded;
contents not recorded; color in deposit not recorded. composite data from spores of material revised by CRC and RET: [40/2/2] (7.2-) 8.1 - 9.3 (-10.5) × (5.3-) 6.0 - 7.0 (-7.5) μm, (L = 8.7 μm; L' = 8.7 μm: W = 6.3 - 6.7 μm; W' = 6.5 μm; Q = (1.11-) 1.21 - 1.46 (-1.70); Q = 1.31 - 1.37; Q' = 134), colorless, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, amyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, infrequently subglobose; apiculus sublateral, cylindric; contents granular to mono- or multiguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ecology | Solitary or in small groups. New South Wales: At 820± m elev. With Eucalyptus. Victoria: not recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| material examined |
from protolog:
AUSTRALIA:
VICTORIA—Shire of South Gippsland -
Wilson's Promontory Nat. Pk., Darby Saddle,
8.vii.1976 D. A., D. G. & P. M. Reid s.n.
(holotype, K). RET: AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES—City of Lithgow - Blue Mountains, Little Hartley [33°33'35.63" S/ 150°12'07.99" E, 819 m], 2.iv.2011 Lucy Albertella s.n. [mushroomobserver #65014] (RET 473-10, nrITS & nrLSU, seq'd.), s.n. [mushroomobserver #65015] (RET 474-1, nrITS seq'd.), Back5b [mushroomobserver #70659] (RET 474-3, nrITS-LSU seq'd.), 3.iv.2011 Lucy Albertella Back1 [mushroomobserver #65046] (RET 474-8, nrLSU seq'd.), Back5 [mushroomobserver #65061] (RET 475-2, nrITS-LSU seq'd.), 25.iv.2011 Lucy Albertella s.n. [mushroomobserver #66284] (RET 475-9, nrITS-LSU seq'd.), 11.xii.2011 L. Albertella s.n. [mushroomobserver #84445 (RET 496-7, nrLSU seq'd.), 12.iv.2014 L. Albertella s.n. (RET 622-10, nrITS-LSU seq'd.), 9.iv.2014 L. Albertella s.n. (RET 623-8, nrITS-LSU seq'd.). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| discussion |
from Reid (1980): "In the exsiccatae [sic] the base of the stem has dried in such a way as to suggest, quite wrongly, that it was marginately bulbous in the living condition." The present species "is characterized by the peculiar thin felty-pulverulent yellowish layer of volval tissue which completely covers the cap." Bas' annotations on his copy of (Reid 1978) indicate that he judged this species to be assignable to sect. Validae. We have followed this idea. The collections Albertella s.n. (2.iv.2011), Albertells Back5b, and Albertella Back5 had entirely or almost entirely immature hymenia. In the latter case, no spores were found at all; in the other two cases, only three spores were found that presented in lateral view in each of the collections. Consequently, at present, our spore data [exclusive of that in the protolog and (Reid 1980)] is based on two collections. Spore size and shape comparison by means of a sporograph is provided below for the present species and A. griselloides: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss & C. Rodríguez Caycedo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name | Amanita luteolovelata |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | D. A. Reid |
| english name | "Yellow-Veiled Australian Mystery Amanita" |
| images |
1. Amanita luteolovelata, note fading yellow in volva on cap, Little Hartley, Blue Mtns., New South Wales, Australia. |
| photo | Lucy Albertella - (1) Little Hartley, Blue Mountains, City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. [Full size image and others of the same specimens can be found on www.mushroomobserver.org, observation no. 65046.] |
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