name | Limacella anomologa | ||||||||
author | (Berk. & Broome) Pegler, 1986. Kew Bull. Addit. Ser. 12: 219, fig. 45 (F–G). | ||||||||
name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||
english name | "Sri Lankan Slimy Stem" | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Agaricus anomologus Berk. & Broome, 1871. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11: 496.
≡Amanitopsis anomologa (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., 1887. Syll. Fung. 5: 27.
≡Clitocybe anomologa (Berk. & Broome) Petch, 1910. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., Peradeniya 4: 395. The editors of this site owe a great debt to Dr. Cornelis Bas whose famous cigar box files of Amanita nomenclatural information gathered over three or more decades were made available to RET for computerization and make up the lion's share of the nomenclatural information presented on this site. | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 102976 | ||||||||
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holotypes | K | ||||||||
intro |
The following text may make multiple use of each data field. The field may contain magenta text presenting data from a type study and/or revision of other original material cited in the protolog of the present taxon. Macroscopic descriptions in magenta are a combination of data from the protolog and additional observations made on the exiccata during revision of the cited original material. The same field may also contain black text, which is data from a revision of the present taxon (including non-type material and/or material not cited in the protolog). Paragraphs of black text will be labeled if further subdivision of this text is appropriate. Olive text indicates a specimen that has not been thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text where data is missing or uncertain. The following material is derived from the type study of Pegler (1986). | ||||||||
pileus | Pegler (1986): 35–50 mm wide, blackish ochraceous in center, paling to pale green[gray?]ish toward margin; context white, soft, ca. 4 mm thick above stipe; margin decurved, striate [but pileus nonstriate in Pegler’s reproduction of Thwaites’ figure]; gluten layer as matrix of hyaline gluten, drying in areolate pattern. | ||||||||
lamellae | Pegler (1986): free to adnexed, subdistant, white, becoming pale yellow, arcuate, up to 3 mm broad; lamellulae of at least two lengths. | ||||||||
stipe | Pegler (1986): 35–80 × 4–6 mm, white, silky striate, cylindric or narrowing upward, with; bulb absent; context fistulose or hollow; exannulate; gluten layer as median zone of gluten. | ||||||||
odor/taste | Pegler (1986): Odor strongly farinose. Taste not described. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
pileipellis | absent? | ||||||||
pileus context | Pegler (1986): filamentous undifferentiated hyphae 3 – 20 µm wide, loosely interwoven; inflated cells not described. | ||||||||
lamella trama | Pegler (1986): bilateral, hyaline; filamentous undifferentiated hyphae 3 – 12 µm wide; other elements and structure not described. | ||||||||
subhymenium | not described. | ||||||||
basidia | Pegler (1986): 18 – 25 × 4.5 – 6 µm, 4-sterigmate; clamps common. | ||||||||
gluten layer | Pegler (1986): hyphae supporting gluten erect, filiform, 2 – 4 µm wide, arising from interwoven layer of hyphae notably denser than subjacent pileus context; terminal cells of gluten-retaining hyphae not described; clamps common. | ||||||||
stipe context | not described. | ||||||||
partial veil | not described. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | Pegler (1986): fertile. | ||||||||
basidiospores | Pegler (1986): [-/-/-] 4 – 5.7 × 2.7 – 3.3 µm, (est. Q = 1.15 - 1.55; Q’ = 1.33), hyaline colorless, thin-walled, smooth, inamyloid, adaxially flattened, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid; apiculus not described; contents "minimal"; pale yellow in deposit. | ||||||||
ecology | Pegler (1986): Terrestrial. | ||||||||
material examined | SRI LANKA: CENTRAL PROV.—30.vi.1969 Thwaites 1206 (holotype, K with icon). | ||||||||
discussion |
It seems that Pegler (1986: 220) described the hyphae of the gluten layer under the heading of "subhymenial layer." Pegler placed the present species in sect. Lubricae because of the strongly glutinous zone of the stipe. The "filiform" cells of the universal veil on the pileus further support this placement. Another Sri Lankan taxon is L. myxodictyon. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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