| name | Amanita hovae | ||||||||||||||||||||
| author | Bouriquet. 1942-43. Bull. Acad. Malgache 25: 12, pl. 1 (fig. 1). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| name status | insufficiently known | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MycoBank nos. | 246172 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| holotypes | TAN [lost in fire per Dr. Bart Buyck (pers. comm.)]; other original material in PC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 text is based on the protolog of the present species. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| pileus | exceeding 100 mm wide, with beautiful shade of red, convex at first, eventually with margin upturned, viscid; context white, except orange just below pileipellis; margin distinctly short-striate, nonappendiculate; universal veil absent; pileipellis separable from the context. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamellae | rather distant, pinkish white; lamellulae abundant. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe | up to 100 × 15± mm, whitish, narrowing upward, flaring at apex; bulb not described; context not described; exannulate, but with concolorous fibrils in an “annular zone”; universal veil concolorous with stipe, either limbate (according to illustration in protolog) or saccate (according to placement in protolog). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| odor/taste | Odor weak; taste sweet. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
The protolog supplies the following results: FeSO4 - negative. Guaiac - negative. H2SO4 - negative. KOH - negative. NH4OH - negative. Pyramidon?? - negative. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| basidiospores | [-/-/-] 7.0 - 10.0 × 5.5 - 7.0 µm, inamyloid; apiculus not described; contents not described; cream white in deposit. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ecology | Under Eucalyptus in plantations. Period of basidiome appearance reported as very short. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| material examined | MADAGASCAR, REPUBLIC OF: Ambohidempona, 19.i.1942 G. Bouriquet G77 (paratype, PC). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| discussion |
The holotype of this species is lost. More original material may be in PC per protolog. To decide upon placement to section, Tulloss choses to follow the illustration in the protolog and, consequently, proposes placement of this species in Amanita sect. Amanita. All material from Bouriquet with collection numbers beginning with "G" was sent to PC as representative of Bouriquet's novel species in April 1947 with a cover letter retained in PC that says nothing about types. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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