Amanita fulva North American - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita fulva—North_American
name status nomen acceptum
author (Schaeff.) Fr.
english name "Fulvous Ringless Amanita"
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  • Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    1. Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

  • Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    2. Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

  • Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    3. Amanita fulva, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.



  • 4. Amanita fulva, Pine Grove Furnace St. Pk., Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  (RET 706-7)


  • 5. Amanita fulva, Seven Tubs Natural Area, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  (RET 706-3)

  • cap The cap is 43 - 80 mm wide, more orange or orange-tan than fulvous except (often) in the center, with color saturation varying from pallid to moderately intense, becoming slightly sordid with age.  Cap margin striate.  Volva almost always absent from cap.
    gills The gills are free, close, pale orangish cream to cream in mass, white to off-white to cream (older material) in side view, not changing when cut or bruised, 5.5 - 6 mm broad. The short gills are truncate or truncate with attenuate tooth along underside of pileus or subtruncate or infrequently subattenuate, of diverse lengths, unevenly distributed, usually plentiful, but sometimes very sparse on some caps.
    stem The stem is entirely velvety (drying to satiny) or decorated with felted to flocculose fragments of anorangish white to orange, subfelted to felted, internal limb of the volva.  This internal limb is attached to the exterior of the volva at the point at which the volva is attached to the stem.  The exterior surface of the volva liable to intense red- or orange-brown staining.
    spores The spores measure (9.8-) 10.5 - 13.1 (-14.3) × (9.1-) 9.7 - 12.0 (-14.0) µm and are globose to subglobose (infrequently broadly ellipsoid) and inamyloid.  Clamp information t.b.d.
    discussion

    Presently known from the Providence of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where it has been found both on the Island of Newfoundland and in southeastern Labrador with Abies balsamea and Betula papyrifera, sometimes with Picea glauca in addition.

    This species was formerly known in these pages as A. daimonioctantes in these pages; however, independent genetic studies by Dr. Landry (Mycol. Soc. Québec) and the present authors, have that the North American material is likely to belong this well-established species known from Eurasia.

    See also Amanita sp-NFL02 and Amanita sp-NFL08.

    Sometimes an accidental event in nature performs a very useful dissection on behalf of the taxonomist: In the images 2 and 3, above, much of the volval limb was pulled from the stem base during expansion of the fruiting body, one end of the limbus internus remained attached to the part of the limb that was ripped upward.  In consequence, note the silky underside of the membrane that continues to connect a line on the inside of the displaced volva to a point at about midstipe (image 2).  The upper side of the membranous connection (image 3) bears friable bits of orangish white limbus internus.—R. E. Tulloss and L. V. Kudzma

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