Amanita comae

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name	Amanita comae
name status	nomen provisorum
author	Tulloss
english name	"New England Little Caesar"
intro	Data will be introduced first on the techncial tab of this page.
odor/taste	The odor and taste have not been recorded for this species.
spores	The spores of A. comae measure (10.0-) 11.2 - 15.0 (-16.1) × (7.0-) 8.0 - 9.5 μm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid (infrequently elongate) and inamyloid; clamps should be realtively common at the bases of basidia.
discussion	This species has been distinguished by molecular means. Notes on a Connecticut collection state that the fruiting body had the form and habitat of Amanita virginiana.—R. E. Tulloss
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name

Amanita comae

author

Tulloss

name status

nomen provisorum

english name

"New England Little Caesar"

etymology

COMA (an acronym) is construed as a feminine Latin noun in the genetive; hence, "of COMA" or "COMA's"

[Note: COMA is an acronym for "Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association."—ed.]

GenBank nos.

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accession	locus	voucher	source



KF877091	rpb2	30.viii.1997 S. S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-30-97-A] (RET 268-10)	S. Sanchez et al., (direct deposit), Roy. Ontario Mus., Toronto
KF877303	nrLSU	30.viii.1997 S. S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-30-97-A] (RET 268-10)	S. Sanchez et al., (direct deposit), Roy. Ontario Mus., Toronto

intro

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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.

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The following material is based on collectors' photographs and notes; molecular data reported by Dr. Santiago Sánchez Ramírez et al. and additional original researach by R. E. Tulloss.

lamella edge tissue

sterile.

basidiospores

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[20/1/1] (10.0-) 11.2 - 15.0 (-16.1) × (7.0-) 8.0 - 9.5 μm, (L = 12.6 μm W = 8.8 μm; Q = (1.26-) 1.28 - 1.59 (-1.79); Q = 1.44), inamyloid; apiculus not described; contents not described; color in deposit not recorded.

ecology

At 145-160 m elev. Connecticut: In lawn near Quercus.

material examined

U.S.A. CONNECTICUT—Tolland Co. - Hebron, The Hemlocks Nature Educ. Ctr. [41°37’11” N/ 72°23’22” W, 145-160 m], 30.viii.1997 S. S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-30-97-A] (RET 268-10, nrLSU & rpb2 seq'd.). MAINE—Knox Co. - Camden, Mt. Battie Carriage Rd., 18.ix.2010 Wm. Bakaitis & Leslie Land s.n. (RET 451-8, nrLSU seq'd.). MASSACHUSETTS—Unkn. Co. - NEMF01 walk 9, 18.viii.2001 Dinah Wells s.n. [Tulloss 8-18-01-A] (RET 361-8, nrLSU seq'd.).

discussion

This species was distinguished from Amanita virginiana by molecular means. Notes on RET 268-10 indicate it had the form and habitat of A. virginiana.

While the sample sizes are ridiculously different, nevertheless, we supply a sporograph comparison between A. comae and A. virginiana:

Hopefully, the data will improve with time.

citations

—R. E. Tulloss

editors

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name	Amanita comae
name status	nomen provisorum
author	Tulloss
english name	"New England Little Caesar"

name	Amanita comae

name	Amanita comae

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