Limacella asperulospora - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Limacella asperulospora
name status nomen acceptum
author Corner
intro The following is RET's interpretation of the original description by Corner (1994a).
cap The smooth-margined cap is approximately 40 mm wide, buff-white, becoming brownish toward the dark brown center, plano-convex, and opaque.  The flesh was described as thin, dry, and white becoming pale buff.  A gluten layer is present.
gills The gills are rounded at the stem and nearly free, crowded, and white before becoming pale buff.  On one cap, Corner counted 44 "primary" gills.  The short gills are reported to form 3 to 4 ranks.
stem The solid stem is 30 × 2.5 mm, white, then pale buff, cylindric, smooth, with the top bearing some white fibrils, and the bottom part "becoming viscid."  No bulb or ring is mentioned in the original description.  The gluten layer appears to comprise hyphae projecting from the stem's surface and bearing gluten and/or gelatinizing.
odor/taste The mushroom smells strongly of flour or meal.  No taste has been reported.
spores Corner reported both spore measurements made from fresh material and measurements made from the same material after being preserved in formol.  When the type was fresh, the spores measured 4.5 – 5.5 × 4 – 5 µm.  After being in formol, the spores measured 3.7 – 4.2 × 3 – 3.7 µm.  The spores are estimated to be subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and were decorated with fine spines.  Reaction to Melzer's reagient was not reported.  Clamps are common at the bases of basidia.
discussion See the very similar species L. singaporeana, also described from Singapore.
brief editors RET

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