Limacella singaporeana - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Limacella singaporeana
name status nomen acceptum
author Corner
english name "Singapore Limacella"
intro The information below is based on an interpretation by RET of the original description of Corner (1994a).
cap The cap of L. singaporeana is 30 – 50 mm wide, pale brown-bister, deeper brown toward the dark-rusty center disc, and pale buff-flesh-colored toward the margin.  The cap is convex then plane, umbonate, smooth, and opaque.  The cap's flesh is 3 – 5 mm thick above the stem, dry, rather soft, and pale buff-flesh-colored to nearly white.  The cap probably bears a gluten layer.
gills The gills are nearly free, crowded, and dingy cream to pale buff-flesh colored.  On a small sample of fruiting bodies, Corner counted 30 – 40 "primaries."  The short gills are in 2–3 ranks.
stem The solid, ringless stem is 40 – 60 mm long, 3 – 4 mm wide at the top, white at the top, otherwise pale buff-flesh-colored, slender, and with a fibrillose surface.  The stem is cottony or scurfy at the top and becomes subviscid in the lower part.  At the stem's base, there is a narrow bulb, 4 – 5 mm wide, that is white and covered with small hairs.
odor/taste not reported.
spores Corner reported that the spores measure 4 – 5 × 3 – 3.5 µm and are finely warted, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and inamyloid.  Clamps were found in other tissues and, therefore (Bas 1969), are probably present at bases of basidia.
discussion —R. E. Tulloss
brief editors RET

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