









| name | Amanita scutum |
| author | Tulloss & S. D. Russell |
| name status | nomen provisorum |
| english name | "Tennessee Target [Ringless Amanita]" |
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| partial veil | absent. |
| lamella edge tissue | sterile. |
| material examined | U.S.A.: NEW JERSEY—Morris Co. - Mendham, Meadowoods Twp. Pk. [40°47'31" N/ 74°38'43" W, 214 m], vii.2013 John Burghardt s.n. (RET 552-10, nrITS & nrLSU seq'd.). TENNESSEE—Sevier Co. - ca. Gatlinburg, GSMNP, Grotto Falls trailhead [35.6752° N/83.4858° W, 780 m], 12.vii.2004 Juan Luis Mata s.n. [Tulloss 7-12-04-S] (RET 375-2, nrLSU seq'd.), Matt Kierle s.n. [Tulloss 7-12-04-V] (RET 374-3, nrITS seq'd.), J. L. Mata s.n. [Tulloss 7-12-04-W] (374-5, nrITS seq'd.). |
| discussion |
Amanita scutum was collected three times on a
single day during Fungal Inventory of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. This is another of the zonate taxa that are placed in the provisional subsection Penetratrices because they share the less common nrLSU 5' motif in section Vaginatae—TCTGACCTCAAATCA. To be clear, there are also zonate taxa that have the more common nrLSU 5' motif—TTTGACCTCAAATCA. The macroscopically similar species that we know from Cape May, New Jersey (A. jakeslandingensis), does not have the subsection Penetratrices type of nrLSU 5' motif. |
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss and S. D. Russell |
| editors | RET |
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