| name |
Amanita sp-Ridley-2 |
| name status |
cryptonomen temporarium |
| english name |
"Noddy's Cap Lepidella" |
| GenBank nos. |
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| intro |
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thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text
where data is missing or uncertain.
The following technical description is based on a brief description in (Ridley 1991).
Ridley (1991): Basidiocarps medium-sized. |
| pileus |
Ridley (1991): up to ca. 60 mm wide, fibrillose to squamulose, cinnamon to sepia over buff, with an acute, elongate umbo up to 35 mm long and becoming curved or bent; context not described; margin probably appendiculate; universal veil not described. |
| lamellae |
Ridley (1991): free, moderately crowded, white staining “yellow;” lamellulae not described. |
| stipe |
Ridley (1991): up to 85 mm long, subcylindric, at apex floccose and white darkening to ochreous, with lower stipe buff, with base white; bulb present (per illustration); exannulate; unversal veil as scabrous to floccose-scaly, buff to ochreous material on lower stipe. |
| odor/taste |
not recorded. |
macrochemical
tests |
none recorded. |
| basidia |
Ridley (1991): 68 - 76 × 12 - 13 µm, 4-sterigmate; clamps not distinguishable. |
| universal veil |
Ridley (1991): From pileus: comprising inflated cells 95 - 187 × 14 – 41 µm, in chains, tending to anticlinal orientation. |
| lamella edge tissue |
Ridley (1991): indistinct. |
| basidiospores |
Ridley (1991): [11/2/2] 9 - 12 × 9 - 12 µm, (Q = 1.0), hyaline, amyloid, globose, apiculus present (per illustration); contents not described; color in deposit not recorded. [Note: Data insufficient to generate sporograph.—ed.] |
| ecology |
Ridley (1991): Solitary. Under Chamaecyparis lawsoniana [alien]. |
| material examined |
Ridley (1991): NEW ZEALAND: AUCKLAND—Auckland City, Landscape Rd., 30.iv.1983 B. P. Segedin 1920 (in herb. Segedin), 1925 (in herb. Segedin). |
| discussion |
Ridley (1991) suggested that this species might belong in Bas' stirps Thiersii. |
| citations |
—R. E. Tulloss |
| editors |
RET |
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