| name |
Amanita roseolescens |
| author |
(Pearson & Stephens) Bas. 1969. Persoonia 5: 5: 374, figs. 71-73 |
| name status |
nomen acceptum |
| english name |
"Rose Staining Lepidella" |
| synonyms |
≡ Lepiota roseolescens Pearson & Stephens in Pearson. 1950. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 33: 288.
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. |
308586 |
| GenBank nos. |
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| holotypes |
K |
| revisions |
Reid and Eicker. 1991. Mycol. Res. 95: 91, figs. 31-34. |
| 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 (Bas
1969).
Basidiomes large to very large. |
| pileus |
Bas (1969):
100 - 160 mm wide, hemispheric to convex, dry;
context thick, white, turning very pale pinkish buff on exposure;
margin appendiculate; universal veil
entirely lanose-squarrose when young,
fibrillose-subsquamulose with squamulose area over
disc with age,
white to pale ochraceous, with slight pinkish tinge
(pinkish buff when freshly dried). |
| lamellae |
Bas (1969):
Free, crowded, at first white, later pink to pinkish
buff, 16 - 13 mm broad, with serrate edge;
lamellulae attenuate. |
| stipe |
Bas (1969):
100 - 140 × 15 - 30 mm, pinkish white to
pinkish buff, cylindric or narrowing upward;
bulb lacking; context solid (?),
with colors as in pileus; partial veil apical, pendent,
submembranous, easily torn, pinkish white;
universal veil as lanose-squamose covering
especially over mid stipe, nearly absent toward stipe
base. |
| odor/taste |
Bas (1969):
Odor sweetish, soap-like when young, becoming
very unpleasant with age ("boiling glue").
Taste mild. |
macrochemical
tests |
none recorded. |
| pileipellis |
Bas (1969):
as somewhat denser layer
between pileus context and universal veil, not
generalized. |
| pileus context |
not described. |
| lamella trama |
not described. |
| subhymenium |
not described. |
| basidia |
Bas (1969):
4-(some 2- or 3-?) sterigmate;
clamps present. |
| universal veil |
Bas (1969):
On pileus: filamentous
hyphae rather scarce; inflated cells
subcylindric to slenderly fusiform, 40 - 130 ×
15 - 35 μm, in abundant terminal chains, with
chains having more or less anticlinal orientation in
upper part of warts; clamps present. On
stipe: including large elongate cells; clamps
present. |
| stipe context |
Bas (1969):
longitudinally acrophysalidic;
filamentous hyphae "broad"; clamps present. |
| partial veil |
not described. |
| lamella edge tissue |
not described, but in all probability sterile. |
| basidiospores |
Bas (1969):
[20/1/1] 9.0 - 11.0 (-12.0) × 8.0 - 10.0 (-11.5) μm, (Q = 1.0 - 1.25; Q = 1.15), colorless, hyaline, with thin or barely thickened wall, amyloid, globose to subglobose to broadly ellipsoid; apiculus sublateral, abrupt, small to moderately large; contents subgranular to translucent; white to pinkish white in deposit. |
| ecology |
Bas (1969):
South Africa: Terrestrial in fields, often growing in
rings. |
| material examined |
Bas (1969): SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE PROVINCE—Valkenburg, v.1949 M. Cole-Rous & E. L. Stephens s.n. [Pearson 681] (holotype, K). |
| discussion |
Bas (1969)
"Amanita roseolescens is
a species from South Africa with a large to very large,
thickset, pinkish white to pinkish buff fruit-body with
pink to pinkish buff gills and with a strongly
lanose-floccose cap and middle part of stem.
"This species has the largest spores of all the
species of the, undoubtedly closely related stirpes
Nauseosa and Thiersii.
Together with the small-spored A.
praegraveolens
it also has the most ellipsoid spores in these two
stirpes. Apparently A. roseolescens
and A. praegraveolens are intermediate
between stirps Vittadinii on the one hand and
stirpes Nauseosa and Thiersii on the
other.
"As the type specimens came from a large ring on a
football field, A. roseolescens is almost
certainly non-mycorrhizal." |
| citations |
—R. E. Tulloss |
| editors |
RET |
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Spore data sets and their composite