| name | Amanita verniformis |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | (Murrill) Murrill |
| english name | "False Springtime Destroying Angel no. 2" |
| intro | The following is based on the original description of Murrill (1945), with the addition of my observations on the type. RET would like to make it clear at the outset that this species is very difficult to separate from A. elliptosperma. The possibility of synonymy is very real. |
| cap | The cap of Amanita verniformis is 70 mm wide, convex to plane, solitary, slightly viscid, smooth, glabrous, milk-white, with an entire even margin. The flesh is thin, white, and unchanging. |
| gills | The gills are just touching, close, narrow, inserted, white, with fimbriate edges. |
| stem | The stem is 80 × 10 mm, subcylindric above the bulb, smooth, white, unchanging, glabrous. The bulb is large, ovoid, and white. The volva is limbate with ample limb and white. The ring is ample, white, and fixed 10 mm from the top of the stem. |
| odor/taste | As a precaution this species should be considered deadly POISONOUS. |
| spores | The spores of the type measure (9.0-) 9.2 - 11.2 (-11.8) × 6.5 - 8.2 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to (occasionally) elongate and amyloid. Clamps are absent from bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
This species was originally described from Florida, where it was found under live oak. In this original description, Murrill fails to compare A. verniformis to his previously described species, focusing only on the supposed similarity to A. verna (Bull. : Fr.) Lam. It seems possible that in creating A. verniformis he was redescribing material that could have been determined under his previous name, A. pseudoverna. This is one of the taxa that is extremely close to Amanita elliptosperma G. F. Atk. and the name of which could well be placed in synonymy with the name of the latter. See the discussion of A. elliptosperma in the key to species of sect. Phalloideae in Central and North America.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita verniformis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| author | (Murrill) Murrill. 1945b. Qtrly. J. Fl. Acad. Sci. 8(2): 198. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| english name | "False Springtime Destroying Angel no. 2" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| synonyms |
≡Venenarius verniformis Murrill. 1945b. Qtrly. J. Fl. Acad. Sci. 8(2): 184. The editors of this site owe a great debt to Dr. Cornelis Bas whose famous cigar box files of Amanita nomenclatural information gathered over three or more decades were made available to RET for computerization and make up the lion's share of the nomenclatural information presented on this site. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MycoBank nos. | 308599 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| holotypes | FLAS F32931 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| type studies |
Jenkins. 1979. Mycotaxon 10: 196. Tulloss (here) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| intro |
The following text may make multiple use of each data field. The field may contain magenta text presenting data from a type study and/or revision of other original material cited in the protolog of the present taxon. Macroscopic descriptions in magenta are a combination of data from the protolog and additional observations made on the exiccata during revision of the cited original material. The same field may also contain black text, which is data from a revision of the present taxon (including non-type material and/or material not cited in the protolog). Paragraphs of black text will be labeled if further subdivision of this text is appropriate. Olive text indicates a specimen that has not been thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text where data is missing or uncertain. The following material not directly from the protolog of the present taxon and not cited as the work of Dr. Z. L. Yang or another researcher is based upon original research by R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| pileus | small, white, convex; context not described; margin very slightly striate; universal veil not mentioned. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamellae | not described | ||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe | not mentioned. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| odor/taste | Odor lacking. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| pileipellis | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| pileus context | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamella trama | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| subhymenium | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| basidia | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| universal veil | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| stipe context | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| partial veil | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| lamella edge tissue | not described. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| basidiospores |
from type study of Jenkins (1979): [-/-/1] (9.4-) 10.2 - 10.9 (-11.7) × 7.0 - 7.8 (-8.6) μm, (Q = 1.12 - 1.56; Q' = 1.37),
hyaline, thin-walled, amyloid, ? to ?, often adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, short,truncate-conic; contents guttulate;
color in deposit not recorded. RET study of type: [40/1/1] (9.0-) 9.2 - 11.2 (-11.8) × 6.5 - 8.2 μm, (L = 10.3 μm; W = 7.5 μm; Q = (1.22-) 1.24 - 1.60 (-1.69); Q = 1.37), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, amyloid,broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, infrequently elongate, at least somewhat adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric to truncate-conic; contents guttulate to granular; ?? in deposit. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ecology | Florida: "near live-oak + pine." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| material examined |
from type study of Jenkins (1979):
U. S. A.: FLORIDA— Alachua Co. - Newman's Lake, 9.vii.1944 W. A. Murrill F 32931 (holotype, FLAS). U. S. A.: FLORIDA—Alachua Co. - E of Gainesville, W of Newman's Lk., Weber's Pond, 9.vii.1944 W. A. Murrill s.n. (holotype, FLAS F32931). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| discussion |
Sporographs are provided to compare spore size and shape similarity with the relatively well known taxa A. magnivelaris (green figure) and A. elliptosperma (orange figure). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||||||||||||||
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