| name |
Amanita loosii |
| author |
Beeli. 1936. Bull. Jard. Bot. État 14: 90, pl. 3 (fig. 1). |
| name status |
nomen acceptum |
| english name |
"de Loose's Slender(?) Caesar" |
| MycoBank nos. |
269784 |
| GenBank nos. |
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| lectotypes |
BR |
| lectotypifications |
Gilbert. 1940. Icon. Mycol. 27, suppl. (1): 98. [Note: In caption for Tab. IX (fig. 5)—ed.]
Walleyn and Verbeken. 1998. Belgian J. Bot 131(2): 157. [Note: Superfluous. Fortunately there can be no confusion both proposals put forward the same collection as lectotype.—ed.] |
| revisions |
Walleyn and Verbeken. 1998. Belgian J. Bot 131(2): 157. |
| 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 material is derived from the protolog of the present taxon and the work
of other cited researchers. |
| pileus |
from protolog: 130 - 160 mm wide, brilliant white at first, becoming cream with chamois disc, globose at first, then plano-convex, bare; context white, unchanging; margin striate (short-striate per figure). |
| lamellae |
from protolog: free, crowded, white, 10 mm broad, pointed toward stipe, broadened toward pileus margin, broadest ca. two-thirds to three-quarters of length (per figure); lamellulae rounded truncate (per figure). |
| stipe |
from protolog: 100 - 120 × 18 - 25 mm, pure white, cylindric broadening slightly near base; context becoming hollow, white, glabrous, smooth; partial veil apical, membranous, pure white, ample and skirt-like (per figure); universal veil membranous, ample, saccate (per figure), with brownish exterior, enclosing bottom third or more of stipe (per figure). |
| odor/taste |
from protolog: Odor like that of citron. Taste not very distinct. |
macrochemical
tests |
none recorded. |
| pileipellis |
note described. |
| pileus context |
not described. |
| lamella trama |
not described. |
| subhymenium |
not described. |
| universal veil |
not described. |
| stipe context |
not described. |
| partial veil |
not described. |
| lamella edge tissue |
not described. |
| basidiospores |
from protolog: 14 - 15 × 10 -11 μm, hyaline, smooth, ellipsoid; apiculus not described; contents as single large guttule; white in deposit. [Note: Reasonable estimation of a range of Q could not be produced. Consequently, no sporograph is generated.—ed.]
Gilbert (1940): [2/1/1] 13.4 - 14.2 × 9.3 - 12.0 μm, (Q = 1.12 - 1.52). [Note: Beeli's spore measurements have often proven unreliable in the view of RET. Therefore, we often use the more accuate (though very limited) data from measurements of scaled spore drawings from (Gilbert 1940).—ed.]
from type (Walleyn and Verbeken 1998): [10/2/1] 10.1 - 12.5 × 7.4 - 10.7 μm, (est. Q = 1.12 - 1.52). [Note: The data provided by these authors includes no computation of Q or any other information other than the measurement data here cited. The Q values used as an estimate are simply those obtained from Gilbert's spore drawings.— |
| ecology |
from protolog: Terrestrial. |
| material examined |
from protolog: CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: KATANGA PROV.—Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville) [ca. 1,000 m], 25.xii.1931 F. De Loose 7 (paratype, BR, formerly including material preserved in formol and now comprising only drawing and notes per Walleyn and Verbeken (1998)), 27.xii.1932 F. De Loose 2 ["B2" per Walleyn and Verbeken (1998)] (lectotype, BR).
Gilbert (1940): CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF: KATANGA PROV.—Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville) [ca. 1,000 m], 27.xii.1932 F. De Loose 2 ["B2" per Walleyn and Verbeken (1998)] (lectotype, BR). |
| discussion |
On the basis macroscopic characters and spore size and shape, Walleyn and Verbeken synonymize A. zambiana with the present species. We are somewhat tentative about this because the original description of the present species could be read to say that the pileus is entirely brilliant white at first; the odor is described as like that of citron; and the taste, as not distinctive. On the other hand A. zambiana has a pileus that is almost entirely brown at first and is said to be unpleasant to the European palate and an acquired taste.
A comparison of the sporographs of the present species and A. zambiana are presented below. It should be noted that the data for A. zambiana is based on 140 spores measured by the methodology that is standard to this site, while the data for A. loosii is based on Q calculations for two spores and the size data was derived from measurements of a total of 12 spores. Even though the match between the sporographs seems good, under the circumstances, the apparent similarity could be accidental. The conservative position would be to withhold judgment on synonymy of the two names discussed above.
t.b.d.
According to the protolog this species is a widely appreciated comestible that was common in the Elisabethville region.
Beeli reported the following indigenous names recorded by de Loose for this species: Tente (Kiswuili), Kilva (Kasengo), and Tedia (Elisabethville). |
| citations |
—R. E. Tulloss |
| editors |
RET |
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Spore data sets and their composite