| name | Amanita kinkybranchensis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| author | Tulloss, S. D. Russell & D. P. Lewis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| name status | nomen provisorum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| english name | "Kinky Branch Ringless Amanita" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| etymology | Named for the original collection site—Kinky Branch Creek. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| pileus | 72 - 102 mm wide, zonate, 10YR 2/2 over disc, then 10YR 3/2, then 10YR 4/2 to margin, slightly tacky, becoming planar with slight umbo; margin not appendiculate, striate (0.4 R); context white, 3 mm thick.; universal veil absent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamellae | free, "distorted" at stipe, close, "whitish," 3 - 6 mm broad, acute, with light grayish brown fibriate edge; lamellulae not described. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe | 150 - 210 × 8 - 18 mm, color?, narrowing upward, covered with fibrillose 10YR 6/2 scales with fine lines extending from apex; context white, hollow; exannulate; universal veil as ample saccate volva, white. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| odor/taste | Odor mild. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| partial veil | absent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamella edge tissue | sterile. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| basidiospores | DPL: [5/1/1] 10.5 - 11.5 × 8.0 - 9.2 × 8.0 - 9.2 μm, (Q = 1.17 - 1.38; Q = 1.30). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ecology | Scattered through mixed Pinus and hardwood forest. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| material examined | U.S.A.: TEXAS—Hardin Co. - Big Thicket Nat. Pres., Lance Rosier Unit, Cotton Rd., Kinky Branch Crk., 13.v.1990 David P. Lewis 4369 (RET 620-2, nrITS-LSU seq'd.). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| discussion | In David Lewis' notes: "A tall and stately...Amanita | ||||||||||||||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||||||||||||||
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