Amanita veldiei - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita veldiei
name status nomen acceptum
author D. A. Reid & Eicker ex Redhead
english name "Veldie's Lepidella"
intro The following text is derived from the original description of Amanita veldiei.
cap The cap of A. veldiei is 40 - 60 mm wide, shallowly convex to planar, white, shiny, with an appendiculate margin and with a sterile extension beyond the end of the gills.  Thick, whitish warts are present, thicker and more conspicuous towards the center passing into cob-webby fibrils towards the margin.
gills

The gills are dirty cream and very narrow at both ends.

stem The stem is 125 - 130 × 6 - 11 mm (width measured at top of stem), narrowing slightly upward, white, smooth above a well-formed ring, below the ring the stem is covered with white floccose-fibrillose warts, most prominent towards the base.  The top of the bulb is covered with white, fibrillose volval remnants.  The bulb is up to 22 mm wide, spindle-shaped, and somewhat rooting.  The ring is on the upper part of the stem and is membranous, skirt-like, and persistent.
spores

The spores measure 12 - 15 × 7 - 8 µm and are amyloid and elongate.  Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.

discussion

Amanita veldiei was originally described from South Africa.  Unfortunately, the name is invalid as published, due to uncertainty as to which of two herbaria named in the paper is the location of the holotype. We have not been able to discover if the omission has been corrected.

The original authors assigned this species to Bas' stirps Hesleri.  They express some concern over the fact that the warts of Amanita hesleri Bas are very dark colored, however, differences in volva color are not uncommon in closely related species in section Lepidella.—R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel

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