| name | Amanita sp-N53 |
| name status | cryptonomen temporarium |
| author | Tulloss |
| images |
 1. Amanita sp-N53, Bluff Point St. Pk., New London Co., Connecticut, U.S.A. |
| cap | Pigment of the 38 mm wide, gray-brown cap appears to be distributed in faint, hair-like lines. The cap is plano-convex at maturity with a slight umbo and is viscid when moist. Its flesh is white and unchanging; and its margin is short-striate. On the material examined, there were no remains of the volva on the cap. |
| gills | The gills are white. |
| stem | The stuffed or hollow stipe in species is 85 × 6 mm and white or whitish. Its flesh is white, unchanging. The saccate volva is membranous, white, persistent, and 30 mm high as photographed |
| odor/taste | The odor and taste of this mushroom are not known. |
| spores | The spores of the present species measure 10.5 - 13.3 × (9.7-) 9.9 - 11.2 (-11.9) μm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are probably absent at bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
Amanita sp-N53 is presently known only from New London Co., Connecticut, where it was found in sandy soil near the Atlantic Coast. The accompanying vegetation is described as "mixed forest." At present, it appears that the taxon in the eastern U.S. most similar to the present one is another provisional species—A. sp-V01.—R. E. Tulloss |
| brief editors | RET |
| name | Amanita sp-N53 | ||||||||
| name status | cryptonomen temporarium | ||||||||
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| pileus | 38 mm wide, gray-brown, faintly virgate, unchanging when cut or bruised, plano-convex at maturity with slight umbo, viscid when moistened; context white, unchanging, ca. 3 mm thick above stipe; margin short-striate, nonappendiculate; universal veil absent. | ||||||||
| lamellae | ??, ??, white in side view, 3 - 3.5 mm broad, broadest at mid-length; lamellulae ??. | ||||||||
| stipe | 85 × 6 mm, white or whitish, cylindric; context white, unchanging, not solid, with central cylinder 4.5 mm wide; exannulate; universal veil as saccate volva, membranous, white, persistent, 30 mm high as photographed, appressed to stipe in age. | ||||||||
| odor/taste | not recorded. | ||||||||
| macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
| basidiospores | composite of all data from material examined by RET: [20/1/1] 10.5 - 13.3 × (9.7-) 9.9 - 11.2 (-11.9) μm, (L = 11.7 μm; W = 10.5 μm; Q = (1.05-) 1.07 - 1.19; Q = 1.11), hyaline, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, inamyloid, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, at least somewhat adaxially flattened; apiculus sublateral, cylindric, proportionately small; contents dominantly monoguttulate; color in deposit unknown. | ||||||||
| ecology | Connecticut: At 0-35 m elev. In sandy soil with high organic content in mixed woods. | ||||||||
| material examined | U.S.A.: CONNECTICUT—New London Co. - SE of Groton, Bluff Point St. Pk. [41°19'11" N/ 72°01'55" W, ca. 0-35 m], 1.viii.2008 R. Aaron s.n. [Tulloss 8-1-2008-A] (RET 446-7). | ||||||||
| discussion |
This possibly distinct entity is known from a single specimen of which the volva was collapsed against the stipe and, hence, not describable in the preferred manner. A sporograph comparison of known, northeastern U.S. species with gray, brown-gray, or gray-brown caps and having similar values for Q is provided in the following figure: The apparent best matches are with A. longicuneus and A. sp-V01. The former species has striations occupying a significantly larger proportion of the cap radius than is shown in the photograph of the present material. Amanita sp-V01 has striations occupying about 25% of the cap radius and is a closer fit in this regard. However, the single extant photograph of A. sp-V01 shows a cap that appears grayer than is depicted in the illustration of the present species. The major macroscopic difference between A. longicuneus and A. sp-V01 that is not pigment-related concerns the limbus internus of the volval sac. It is unusually long in the former and minimal or absent in the latter. Unfortunately the collapsed state of the universal in the present material prevented our having knowledge of its limbus internus. Considering that the material representing A. sp-N53 was mature when sampled for spore size/shape, it is unlikely that the spore measurements for the present species include "giant" spores or in some other manner exaggerate the size of the spores of A. sp-N53. Therefore, we treat it as a new provisional, code-numbered species. | ||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
| editors | RET | ||||||||
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