Amanita sp-DED-8271 - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita sp-DED-8271
name status cryptonomen temporarium
author Tulloss
intro The material described on this taxon page should be compared with A. bingensis.
cap The cap of this entity is 30–55 mm wide, yellow, convex to plano-convex, and becoming planar-depressed.  The cap's flesh is white and 1–2 mm thick over the stem.  The margin of the cap is striate (0.5R±) and uplifted in age.7nbsp; The volval remnants on the cap are yellowish orange to orange-red, floccose scales that are 1–2 mm wide in the cap's center and become smaller toward the margin.
gills The gills are very nearly free, close, white, 2–3 mm broad, and have a yellow, powdery edge.  The short gills are more or less truncate to rounded truncate to excavate truncate, of diverse lengths, common, and irregularly distributed (often locally sparse on some fruiting bodies).  Occasionally a short gill will merge with a regular gill.
stem The hollow, ringless stem is 38–64 (including the bulb) × 3–4 (at apex) mm and pale yellowish white to yellow.  It narrows upward; and, near the top it may appear powdery.  The stem's bulb is 7–9 mm wide, small—similar in form to that of A. farinosa Schwein. (1822)—very small, subabrupt, and somewhat top-shaped.  The stem's flesh is white.  The volva is scattered on the stem—in orange granules on the lower stipe and as small red-orange floccules on the upper part of the bulb.
odor/taste This mushroom lacks an odor; and its taste is not recorded.
spores The spores measure (6.2-) 6.5 - 7.7 (-8.5) × (4.2-) 4.5 - 5.5 (-5.8) μm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid (occasionally elongate) and inamyloid.  Clamps are not found at the bases of basidia.
discussion This taxon has been collected once in the island nation of São Tomé e Príncipe, off the east coast of Africa.  Research is continuing.  t.b.d.—R. E. Tulloss and D. E. Desjardin
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