name | Amanita alligator | ||||||||
author | Tulloss | ||||||||
name status | nomen provisorum | ||||||||
english name | "Ristich's Alligator-stem Ringless Amanita." | ||||||||
etymology | alligator - genus name of a large carnivorous reptile, known from two living species—one in North America and one in China. [Note: The original collector of the present species, the late Dr. Samuel S. Ristich, consistently used the informal English phrase "alligator stipe" to describe this species in correspondence with RET.] | ||||||||
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where data is missing or uncertain. The following text is derived from original research of R. E. Tulloss. | ||||||||
pileus | 120 mm wide, brownish gray, virgate, subumbonate; context ??; margin striate (0.25R), nonappendiculate; universal veil absent. | ||||||||
lamellae | ??, off-white, drying pale yellowish tan, rather narrow, ??; lamellulae ??. | ||||||||
stipe | 222 × ?? mm, white, upper two thirds to one half (upper 115 mm) covered with brown to rather dark gray fibrils, at times breaking up into chevron-like pattern; context white; exannulate; universal veil as a saccate volval, white, large, copious, thick, 93 mm from base of stipe to highest point of limb. | ||||||||
odor/taste | not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
basidiospores | [10/1/1] 10.8 - 14.0 (-17.2) × (6.0-) 8.5 - 11.0 µm, (L = 12.7 µm; W = 9.6 µm; Q = 1.08 - 1.40 (-2.13); Q = 1.36), ??, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, rarely cylindric, adaxially flattened, often expanded slightly at apex; apiculus sublateral to lateral, cylindrical; contents guttulate; ?? in deposit. | ||||||||
ecology | Maine: Solitary. In Picea forest. | ||||||||
material examined |
U.S.A.:
MAINE—Cumberland Co. -
"Rte. 9 spruce forest," N. Yarmouth, 2.viii.1993 Dr.
Samuel S. Ristich s.n. [Tulloss 8-2-93-SSR1]
(RET 096-4), | ||||||||
discussion |
This species was originally called "species N22" and,
later, on the present site, "A.
sp-N22." As we begin to sample collections referred to the name "A. umbrinolutea" by Dr. Ristich, we find that more than one taxon is involved and that the taxa appear to differ both morphologically and genetically. For example, see A. sp-N63, which appears to share an nrITS sequences with the present species, can be diffrentiated by nrLSU. RET is concerned that the images associated with the two collections cited in the "materials examined" data field may not be contaxic. Hence, further work is needed. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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