Amanita luteolovelata - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita luteolovelata
name status nomen acceptum
author D. A. Reid
english name "Yellow-Veiled Australian Mystery Amanita"
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  • 1. Amanita luteolovelata, note fading yellow in volva on cap, Little Hartley, Blue Mtns., New South Wales, Australia.

  • intro The following is based on the original description of Reid (1980).
    cap The cap of A. luteolovelata is up to 50 mm wide, pale gray-brown, at first strongly convex, becoming flattened with a smooth margin.  The cap is entirely covered with a pale yellowish, thin, felty-pulverulent layer of volval tissue which tends to form indistinct, cobwebby scales towards the center.  The flesh is white.
    gills The gills are white.
    stem The stem is up to 40 × 10 mm, clavate, 15 mm at the base, white above, and creamy yellow below the ring.  The ring is membranous, faintly striate, creamy yellow, and skirt-like.  No volva is present at the stipe base.  The flesh is white.
    spores The spores measure (7.2-) 8.1 - 9.3 (-10.5) × (5.3-) 6.0 - 7.0 (-7.5) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid.  Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.
    discussion Originally collected in Victoria, Australia.  The taxon is also reported from New South Wales.

    Wood (1997) rejected Reid's reduction in rank of the present taxon, and RET is in agreement on this point, although, since Wood may have misapplied the name A. grisella, our reasoning is somewhat different.

    The average spore of A. grisella E.-J. Gilbert & Cleland is subglobose to broadly ellipsoid according to data presented by Reid as well as by my measurements of Gilbert's spore drawings.  The spore width is proportionately smaller in the present species.  It is odd that Reid did not make note of the difference in cap color between A. luteolovelata and A. grisella.  Also, since the volva color in var. grisella is unknown, creating a variety based on volval color is an unusual thing to have done.—R. E. Tulloss
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