Amanita torrendii - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita torrendii
name status nomen acceptum
author Justo
english name "Torrend's Dry Caesar"
synonyms
≡Torrendia pulchella Bres.
non Amanita pulchella S. Imai (see Amanita flavipes S. Imai)
non Amanita pulchella (Cooke & Massee) E.-J. Gilbert
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  • 1. Amanita torrendii (Torrendia pulchella), Mediterranean region.

    • intro Torrendia pulchella was the first secotioid species of Amanita to be described.  It is the type species of the genus Torrendia.  That it had inamyloid spores, typical Amanita tissue in the stipe, a universal veil very similar to the taxa of what we now call Amanita sect. Caesareae, and common clamp connections in its tissues was noted by Dr. C. Bas (1975).

    Recent molecular work [e.g., by Dr. H. E. Hallen (unpub. data), and, later, by Justo et al. (2010)] has supported the hypothesis that the present species is an Amanita in section Caesareae.  Other secotioid taxa were recently placed in the genus Torrendia; however, taken as a group, the taxa placed in Torrendia are unlikely to have a common ancestor other than one that is also an ancestor to at least some of the agaricoid taxa of sect. Caesareae.  Hence, Justo et al. (2010) have moved the relevant taxa of both genera to the genus Amanita.
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