name | Amanita timida |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | Corner & Bas |
english name | "Timid Lepidella" |
images | |
cap |
The cap of A. timida is 50 - 120 mm wide, globose to convex, whitish to pinkish, dry, with a nonsulcate margin. The cap is densely set with firm, adnate, pinkish to pale brown, conical warts passing into subflocculose points towards the margin. |
gills |
The gills are rather crowded, free to narrowly adnate, white then cream, with a whitish granular edge. The short gills are attenuate. |
stem |
The stem is 65 - 180 × 10 - 20 mm, tapering upward, with a subclavate, clavate, fusiform, or elongate-fusiform base, solid, and whitish to pinkish to brownish. Pinkish to brownish, firm, rather large scales are present below the ring, and minute scales are present in the middle. |
spores |
The spores measure 7.1 - 9.9 × 5.6 - 8.4 µm from fresh material and 8 - 10 × 6.5 - 8 µm from dry material (original description, 1962) [(6.5-) 7 - 9 (-10) × 5.5 - 7 (-8.5) µm (Bas, 1969)] and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid (occasionally globose or ellipsoid) and amyloid. Clamps are abundant at the bases of basidia. |
discussion |
This species was originally described from Singapore. Similar material was reported from Sarawak (Bas, 1969); and,in that work, Bas included in the spore measurements data taken from the Sarawak material with results shown in square brackets, above. |
brief editors | RET |
name | Amanita timida | ||||||||
author | Corner & Bas. 1962. Persoonia 2: 245, figs. 1-2. | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Timid Lepidella" | ||||||||
etymology | timidus "timid"; because of the blushing context of this species | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 326117 | ||||||||
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holotypes | L | ||||||||
revisions | Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 389-390, figs. 96-98. | ||||||||
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 data below is derived from the protolog and the revision of Bas (1969). | ||||||||
odor/taste | Odor faintly of fenugreek. Taste not reported. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none reported. | ||||||||
basidiospores |
from protolog: [-/-/-] 7.1 - 9.9 × 5.6 - 8.4 μm,
(Q = 1.10 - 1.40; Q = 1.20 - 1.25),
hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, seldom subglobose; apiculus proportionately small to medium-sized; contents somewhat oleaginous granular; color in deposit not reported. [Note: Reported from fresh material to be 8.0 - 10.0 × 6.5 - 8.0 μm.] from Bas (1969): [54/6/3] (6.5-) 7.0 - 9.0 (-10.0) × 5.5 - 7.0 (-8.5) μm, (Q = (1.0-) 1.10 - 1.25 (-1.40); Q = 1.05 - 1.25), amyloid, globose to subglobose to broadly to ellipsoid;apiculus not described; contents not described; color in deposit not described. | ||||||||
ecology | Terrestrial in tropical forest. | ||||||||
material examined |
from protolog: SINGAPORE: Mac Ritchie Reservoir, 30.x.1934 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (holotype, L; isotype, K), 7.xi.1934 E. J. H. Corner (paratype, L; paratype, K). Bas (1969): SINGAPORE: Mac Ritchie Reservoir, 30.x.1934 E. J. H. Corner s.n. (holotype, L; isotype, K), 7.xi.1934 E. J. H. Corner (paratype, L; paratype, K). MALAYSIA: SARAWAK—Bintulu, 23.vi.1960 Ding Hou 358 (L). | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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name | Amanita timida |
name status | nomen acceptum |
author | Corner & Bas |
english name | "Timid Lepidella" |
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drawing |
Dr. Cornelis Bas - (1-3) Singapore, illustration from original description (Corner & Bas, 1962) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands. |
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