Limacella anomologa - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Limacella anomologa
name status nomen acceptum
author (Berk. & Broome) Pegler
english name "Sri Lankan Slimy Stem"
cap The cap of this species is 35–50 mm wide, blackish ochraceous in center, and paling to pale green[gray?]ish toward margin.  The cap's flesh is white, soft, and ca. 4 mm thick above the stem.  The cap's margin is decurved, "striate" [but pileus is not striate in Pegler’s reproduction of Thwaites’ figure].  The gluten layer on the cap is colorless.  The cap dries in a cracked-dried-mud pattern.
gills The gills are free to narrowly attached, subdistant, white, becoming pale yellow, arcuate, and up to 3 mm broad.  The short gills are present in at least two lengths.
stem The stem is 35–80 × 4–6 mm, white, silky striate, cylindric or narrowing upward, and lacks a bulb at its base.  The stem is tube-like and stuffed or hollow and lacks a ring.  There is a zone of gluten at about the middle of the stem.
odor/taste The odor of this species is strongly farinose.  The taste has not been described.
spores The spores of this species measure 4 – 5.7 × 2.7 – 3.3 µm, and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and inamyloid.  Clamps are present at bases of basidia.
discussion Limacella anomologa is known only from the type collection so far as is known to the editors. The sole collecting site is in central Sri Lanka.—R. E. Tulloss
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