| name | Amanita sculpta |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | Corner & Bas |
| english name | "Sculpted Volva Lepidella" |
| images |
 1. Amanita sculpta, Singapore.  2. Amanita sculpta, Singapore.  3. Amanita sculpta, Singapore.  4. Amanita sculpta, Yunnan Prov., China. |
| cap | The fruiting bodies of Amanita sculpta are large to very large. The cap is 80 - 180 (-250) mm wide, convex to applanate, greyish brown, brownish to purplish brown, covered with brown to dark brown, conical volval remnants 2 - 10 mm high and 2 - 8 mm wide and becoming smaller towards the cap margin. The cap margin is smooth and appendiculate; the context is white to brownish, becoming brown to dark brown when injured. |
| gills | The gills are free to subfree, white with pinkish tinge when young, purplish brown when mature, becoming black to dark brown when dried; lamellulae subtruncate to attenuate. |
| stem | The stipe is 80 - 200 × 10 - 30 (-50) mm, subcylindrical or attenuate upwards, with a surface that is dirty white to brown, covered with brownish to brown floccose to farinose squamules, and a basal bulb 25 - 60 mm wide. The bulb is napiform to ventricose, with its upper part covered with brown, verrucose to farinose volval remnants. The annulus often breaks up and falls away. |
| spores | The spores measure (7.5-) 8.0 - 11.0 (-15.5) × (7.5-) 8.0 - 10.5 (-14.5) µm and are globose to subglobose and amyloid. Clamps are not present at the bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
This species was originally described from Singapore. It is found in southern China and also reported from Japan. As Dr. Bas proposed in his 1969 monograph on Amanita section Lepidella, the most similar species is Amanita westii (Murrill) Murrill of the southeastern USA. Bas' stirps Sculpta comprises these two species. Bas warns of confusion with A. eriophora (Berk.) E.-J. Gilbert.—Zhu L. Yang and R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita sculpta | ||||||||
| author | Corner & Bas. 1962. Persoonia 2: 255, pl. 2, figs. 3-4. | ||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
| english name | "Sculpted Volva Lepidella" | ||||||||
| MycoBank nos. | 326113 | ||||||||
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| holotypes | L | ||||||||
| revisions |
Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 483, figs. 242-243. Z. L. Yang. 1997. Biblioth. Mycol. 170: 147, figs. 119-122. | ||||||||
| 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 predominantly derived from Yang (1997); additional data is from the protolog and from Bas (1969); the remainder (marked "RET" is based on original research of R. E. Tulloss. NOTE: Spore measurements from papers by Z. L. Yang use his "Times New Roman" face for "Q" and "Q'"—respectively, " | ||||||||
| odor/taste | from protolog: Odor faintly of ripe pears. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| anatomical figures | |||||||||
| basidiospores |
from protolog: insufficient data. Bas (1969): insufficient data. Yang (1997): [70/2/2] (7.5-) 8.0 - 11.0 (-15.5) × (7.5-) 8.0 - 10.5 (-14.5) μm, ( RET: [20/1/1] (8.0-) 8.5 - 10.0 (-11.0) × (7.5-) 7.6 - 9.1 (-10.0) μm, (L = 9.5 μm; W = 8.6 μm; Q = (1.03-) 1.06 - 1.22 (-1.23); Q = 1.10), smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, dominantly subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, infrequently globose, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric, rather prominent; contents not recorded; color in deposit not recorded. | ||||||||
| ecology |
protolog: Solitary. Terrestrial in forest. Bas (1969): Malaysia: At 1050 m elev. Terrestrial in forest. Singapore: Terrestrial in forest. Yang (1997): Solitary for in small groups. China: At 900 - 1350 m elev. In forest with Castanopsis and Lithocarpus. | ||||||||
| material examined |
from protolog: SINGAPORE: Bukit Timah, 15.x.1939 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (paratype, L, in liquid), 9.vii.1940 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (holotype, L, exsiccatum with watercolor drawing), 2.ix.1940 E. J. H. Corner (paratype, L, watercolor drawing only). from Bas (1969): MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO—Mt. Kinabalu, 13.vi.1961 E. J. H. Corner RSNB 581 (L). SINGAPORE: Bukit Timah, 15.x.1939 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (paratype, L, in liquid), 9.vii.1940 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (holotype, L, exsiccatum with watercolor drawing), 2.ix.1940 E. J. H. Corner (paratype, L, watercolor drawing only). from Yang (1997): CHINA: YUNNAN—Pu'er Prefecture - Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous Co., Hongjiang, 6.viii.1991 P. G. Liu 850 (HKAS 24413). Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture - Mengla Co., Menglun, 12.viii.1995 F. Oberwinkler s.n. (HKAS 32516). RET: CHINA: YUNNAN—Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture - Lufeng Co., unkn. loc., in market, 4.viii.2002 market collector s.n. [D. Arora 02-64] (SFSU; RET 358-4). Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture - Unkn. Co., unkn. loc., vii.1999 D. Arora 99-185 (SFSU; RET 349-8). | ||||||||
| discussion |
t.b.d. The present species is known from China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. | ||||||||
| citations | —Z. L. Yang, R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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| name | Amanita sculpta |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | Corner & Bas |
| english name | "Sculpted Volva Lepidella" |
| images |
1. Amanita sculpta, Singapore. 2. Amanita sculpta, Singapore. 3. Amanita sculpta, Singapore. 4. Amanita sculpta, Yunnan Prov., China. |
| anatomical figures | |
| photo | Zhu L. Yang - (4) Yunnan Province, China. |
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| watercolor | Prof. E. J. H. Corner - (1-3) Singapore, illustration from original description (Corner and Bas 1962) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands. |
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