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name	Amanita eliae var. eliae
name status	nomen acceptum
author	Quél.
english name	"Elias' Amanita"
images	1. Amanita eliae, southwestern France. 2. Amanita eliae, southwestern France. 3. Amanita eliae, plate from (Barla 1888), Alpes-Martimes, France. 4. Amanita eliae, southwestern France.
intro	The following is based on the description by Neville & Poumarat (2004).
cap	The cap of Amanita eliae is 40 - 80 mm wide, eggshell-white at first, then rose-tawny, sometimes tinted paler to whitish, with a long-striate margin. The volva is absent or present as small white warts which correspond to small, deep depressions in the cap, more or less over the cap surface, easily removable. The flesh is white.
gills	The gills are free and whitish.
stem	The stem is 75 - 150 × 10 - 15 mm, subcylindric, narrowing slightly upwards, flaring at the base, with concentric rings in the upper portion, white with small squamules turning brownish with age, with a narrow bulb in age. The ring is membranous, white, thin, fragile, and more or less lost in mature examples. The volva is whitish, friable, fragile, white to whitish, and left in fragments or as a small limb. The flesh is white.
spores	According to Neville & Poumarat (2004), the spores measure (10-) 10.5 - 13 (-15) × (6-) 6.5 - 9 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate and inamyloid. Spores measured from spore prints were thought to be more often elongate than spores measured from the gills. Clamps are absent from the bases of basidia. RET measured spores from gills of three collections from southwestern France (courtesy F. Massart, Gradignan, Gironde) and reported data as follows: (9.0-) 9.2 - 14.1 (-16.0) × (5.4-) 5.5 - 8.5 (-10.0) µm and ellipsoid to elongate to cylindric (infrequently broadly ellipsoid). Spores can be very variable in length and shape within a small region of a gill from a single specimen.
discussion	This species was originally described from France where it occurs most often in broad-leaved forests, for example, with oaks (Quercus spp.), beech (Fagus sylvatica), chestnut (Castanea sativa), birch (Betula pubescens), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), and hazel (Corylus avellana), sometimes with pine present (Pinus sylvestrus). Specimens that are entirely whitish from the button stage onward throughout the life of the fruiting body are assigned by some authors to A. eliae [var. griseovelata] f. candida Neville & Poumarat. Specimens with graying volva and stem decoration are assigned to A. eliae var. griseovelata Bertault ex Neville & Poumarat. For comparison, see A. subrecutita (Murrill) Murrill, A. lippiae Wartchow & Tulloss, A. viscidolutea Menolli, Capelari & Baseia, and A. sp-N58.—R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel
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name

Amanita eliae var. eliae

author

Quél. 1872. Champ. Jura Vosges 1: 230, pl. 22 (fig. 1). [Known from 1964 reprint by Asher, Amsterdam.]

name status

nomen acceptum

english name

"Elias' Amanita"

synonyms

See Amanita nomenclator (t.b.d.).

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.

211392

GenBank nos.

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holotypes

Quélet. 1872. op. cit.: pl. 22 (fig. 1). [Cf. ICBN Vienna Code 7.7 and associated examples. This plate must be judged holotype of the present name; and designating it as lectotype (Neville and Poumarat 2004: 362) is superfluous.]

revisions

E.-J. Gilbert. 1941. Iconogr. Mycol. (Milan): 264, 265, tab. 22.
Neville and Poumarat. 2004. Fungi Europaei 9: 361.
[partial] Wartchow, Tulloss and Cavalcanti. 2009. Mycologia 101: 867.

selected illustrations

Migliozzi & Camboni. 2000. Bull. Gruppo Micol. G. Bresadola 43(2): 126.

intro

The protolog of this species consists entirely of the following (emphasis as in the original):

"Stipe allongé, plein puis fistuleux-aranéeux blanc, atténué de bas en haut, strieé au-dessus de l'anneau et floconneux au-dessous. Anneau écarté des lamelles, mince finement plissé et blanc. Volva engainante, déchirée et fugace. Chapeau campanulé puis étalé (5 à 6 cent.) nu, humide, incarnat purpurin ou lilacin avec la marge sillonnée et blanche. Lamelles blanches, atténuées en arrière, arrondies en avant. Spore ovale, hyaline, ponctuée (90^e de millim.).

"Juin-Juillet. Bois frais sur le diluvium vosgien."

basidiospores

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RET: [75/3/3] (9.0–) 9.2 – 14.1 (–16.0) × (5.4–) 5.5 – 8.5 (–10.0) μm, (L = 10.1 – 12.3 μm; L' = 11.4 μm; W = 6.5 – 7.4 μm; W' = 6.9 μm; Q = (1.24–) 1.32 – 2.07 (–2.32); Q = 1.58 – 1.80; Q' = 1.66).

material examined

RET: FRANCE: DORDOGNE—St-Michel-de-Montaigne, 18.vi.1998 F. Massart 98015 (in herb. Massart; RET 402-3). GIRONDE—Pessac, 9.iv.2001 F. Massart 01002 (in herb. Massart; RET 402-7). LANDES—Onesse, 12.v.1996 F. Massart 96017 (in herb. Massart; RET 402-2).

citations

—R. E. Tulloss

editors

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name	Amanita eliae var. eliae
name status	nomen acceptum
author	Quél.
english name	"Elias' Amanita"
images	1. Amanita eliae, southwestern France. 2. Amanita eliae, southwestern France. 3. Amanita eliae, plate from (Barla 1888), Alpes-Martimes, France. 4. Amanita eliae, southwestern France.
photo	Francis Massart - (1-2, 4) southwestern France.
historic plates	J.-B. Barla - (3) plate from (1888, Fl. Illus. Champ. Alpes-Marit.)

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Spore data for collections
provisionally identified as: Amanita eliae var. eliae Quél.

Spore data sets and their composite

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basidiospore definition

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