name | Amanita margarita | ||||||||
author | (Murrill) Murrill. 1945a. Mycologia 37: 271. | ||||||||
name status | insufficiently known | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Venenarius margaritus Murrill. 1945a. Mycologia 37: 270. 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. | 284062, 291946 | ||||||||
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holotypes | FLAS | ||||||||
type studies | Jenkins. 1979. Mycotaxon 10: 182. | ||||||||
intro |
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basidiospores | from type, RET: [40/2/1] (10.0-) 11.2 - 14.0 (-15.0) × (4.5-) 4.8 - 6.0 μm, (L = 12.9 - 13.0 μm; L' = 13.0 μm; W = 5.3 - 5.4 μm; W' = 5.3 μm; Q = (1.67-) 2.02 - 2.80 (-3.16); Q = 2.43 - 2.45; Q' = 2.45), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, cylindric, infrequently elongate, infrequently bacilliform; apiculus sublateral, truncate-subconic, proportionately small; contents granular; ?? in deposit. | ||||||||
ecology | Paired. Under Quercus laurifolia Michx. (Laurel Oak). | ||||||||
material examined | type study of RET: U.S.A.: FLORIDA Alachua Co. - Gainesville, 28.vi.1944 W. A. Murrill F 38906 (holotype, FLAS). | ||||||||
discussion |
The following general observations were made by RET (vi.1990): The two specimens in the type collection are in very bad condition and have been extensively attacked by insects. The lamella trama of both specimens appears to be thoroughly collapsed. The following sporograph comparisons are presented to compare the spore size and shape of the presents with spore size and shape of other white or whitish taxa having cylindric to bacilliform spores and having been considered at one time to be assignable to section Phalloideae. Given the comparison of sporographs, the present taxon appears most similar in spore size and shape to A. virosiformis (presently thought to belong in sect. Phalloideae), while A. cylindrisporiformis has spores more similar to those A. cylindrispora (sect. Lepidella). | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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