| name |
Amanita praeclara |
| author |
Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 380, figs. 81-83. |
| name status |
nomen acceptum |
| english name |
"Playing Field Lepidella" |
| synonyms |
≡ Lepiota praeclara Pearson. 1950. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 33: 288, pl. 14.
The editors of this site owe a great debt to Dr. Cornelis Bas
whose famous cigar box files of Amanita nomenclatural information
gathered over three or more decades were made available to RET for computerization
and make up the lion's share of the nomenclatural information presented on this site.
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| MycoBank nos. |
308580, 299494 |
| GenBank nos. |
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| lectotypes |
K |
| lectotypifications |
Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 380. |
| revisions |
Reid and Eicker. 1991. Mycol. Res. 95: 90, figs. 28-30. |
| 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 predominantly taken
from the revision of the species by Bas (1969).
Bas (1969):
Basidiome: medium-sized to very large.
[Note: Reid and Eicker data
should be added.] |
| pileus |
Bas (1969):
50 - 160 mm wide, white, staining pale yellow,
globose to plano-convex, sometimes
with slight central depression; context thick,
white with yellow spots;
margin nonstriate, appendiculate; universal
veil white, staining pale yellow, as minutely
felted-fibrillose to
fibrillose-squamulose to lanose-floccose covering when
young, with age detersile or as poorly delimited
felted to subverrucose patches over disc. |
| lamellae |
Bas (1969):
adnexed to free, crowded to subdistant, white to
cream, staining pale yellow, thin, 10 - 20 mm broad,
straight to ventricose, with entire edge;
lamellulae not recorded. |
| stipe |
Bas (1969): 70 -
130 × 10(?) - 20 mm [note: length includes
that of bulb—ed.], cylindric, below partial veil
lanose-fibrillose at first, then glabrous;
bulb subclavate to rounded, up to 40 mm wide;
context solid(?) to stuffed to hollow(?), else
as in pileus; partial veil apical, pendent,
broad, membranous, with ragged free edge, white;
universal veil lanose-fibrillose, detersile. |
| odor/taste |
Bas (1969):
Odor indistinct. Taste nutty,
then unpleasant. |
macrochemical
tests |
none recorded. |
| pileipellis |
Bas (1969): not
gelatinized; "very difficult to locate, merely a
somewhat denser
layer of repent, interwoven to subradial hyphae 4 - 14
μm wide between trama of cap and volva." |
| pileus context |
not described. |
| lamella trama |
Bas (1969):
bilateral; "probably without terminal inflated
elements." |
| subhymenium |
Bas (1969):
"cellular." |
| basidia |
Bas (1969):
40 - 50 × 12 - 14 μm, 4-sterigmate;
clamps not observed.
RET: 36 - 43 × 8.1 - 11.0 μm, dominantly 4-,
occasionally 2-sterigmate, with sterigmata up to 9.5
× 2.5 μm; clamps not observed. |
| universal veil |
Bas (1969):
On pileus: filamentous hyphae scattered, up to
12 μm wide; inflated cells subcylindric to
elongate-fusiform to slenderly clavate, 80 - 180 ×
10 - 30 μm, in abundant terminal chains.
On stipe: not recorded.
RET: On pileus: no yellow-walled elements
observed; filamentous undifferentiated hyphae
1.6 - 8.5 μm wide, branching, anastomosing;
inflated cells up to 187 × 29 μm in
terminal chains, with chains occasionally ending in
a group of cells arising in cluster from subterminal
cell; vascular hyphae not oberved; clamps rare or
absent, none seen on septa of uninflated
hyphae. On stipe: not recorded. |
| stipe context |
Bas (1969):
longitudinally acrophysalidic; filamentous hyphae
rather abundant, 3 - 10 μm wide; acrophysalides
abundant, clavate, 100 - 300 × 25 - 55 μm;
clamps not
observed. |
| partial veil |
not described. |
| lamella edge tissue |
Bas (1969): "not
found." |
| basidiospores |
Bas (1969):
[20/1/1] 8.0 - 9.5 (-10.0) ×
8.0 - 9.0 (-10.0) μm, (Q = 1.0 - 1.05),
hyaline, colorless, with slightly thickened wall,
amyloid,
globose; apiculus rather strongly projecting;
content guttulate or translucent; white in
deposit.
RET: [20/1/1] 7.9 - 9.4 (-11.6) × (7.3-) 7.5 -
8.8 (-11.0) μm, (L = 8.7 μm; L' =
8.7 μm; W = 8.3 μm; W' =
8.3 μm; Q = (1.0-) 1.01 - 1.08 (-1.09); Q
= 1.05; Q' = 1.05), ??, smooth, amyloid,
globose to subglobose, often adaxially flattened;
apiculus sublateral, truncate-pyramidal to
cylindric; contents dominantly
monoguttulate; color in deposit not recorded. |
| ecology |
Bas (1969):
In fields and on lawns, growing in rings.
RET: In grass. |
| material examined |
Bas (1969):
SOUTH AFRICA: WESTERN CAPE
PROV.—Cape
Town Metropolitan Municipality - Simonstown, 22.iv.1948 A. A.
Pearson 10 (lectotype, K). EASTERN
CAPE PROV—Sarah Baartman Distr. -
Blue Crane Route Municipality, Somerset East,
1878 MacOwen 1011 (K).
RET: SOUTH AFRICA: EASTERN
CAPE PROV.—Sara Baartman Distr. -
Makana Municipality, Grahamstown,
Makana Botanical Gardens, i.2005
Greer Hawley s.n. [marked "A" by RET] (RET 287-7;
RUH?), Belmont Valley, Fairyvale Farm,
i.2005 Greer Hawley s.n.
(RET 387-6, nrITS & nrLSU seq'd.).
GAUTENG PROV.—Tshwane City - Pretoria,
Elarduspark [25.8368° S/ 28.2772° E, 1545 m],
5.iv.2015 Liz Popich s.n. [mushroomobserver
#202332]
(RET 685-5, nrITS seq'd.), 28.xii.2015 Liz Popich
s.n. [mushroomobserver
#315083]
(RET 726-7, nrITS & nrLSU seq'd.); Pretoria
[25.8157° S/ 28.286°6 E, 1498 m], 12.ii.2018
Liz Popich s.n. (RET 822-1, nrITS-LSU seq'd.). |
| discussion |
Bas (1969):
"Amanita praeclara is a
medium-sized to very large, thickset, white,
flavescent species from South Africa. It
resembles
the species of stirps Nauseosa because of the
concentration of the (rather slight!)
lanose-fibrillose volval remnants on the stem just
below the ring. But clamps are absent, so that
it is placed here in the same stirps as A.
thiersii and A. aureofloccosa in which
clamps are also lacking and which have the same
small, globose spores, but in which the remnants of
the volva are scattered
over the whole lower part of the stem.
"This decision is also justified by the fact that
the next species, A. foetens, is somewhat
intermediate between A. praeclara on the one
side and A. thiersii and A.
aureofloccosa on the other. Amanita
foetens has more or less the same habit as A.
praeclara, but the remnants of its volva are
scattered over the whole lower part of the stem, as
in A. thiersii and A.
aureofloccosa.
"Amanita praeclara has been found growing in
rings on football fields and is therefore almost
certainly non-mycorrhizal." |
| citations |
—R. E. Tulloss |
| editors |
RET |
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