name | Limacella oblita | ||||||||
author | (Peck) Murrill. 1914a. N. Amer. Flora 10: 42. | ||||||||
name status | insufficiently known | ||||||||
english name | "Indifferrent Limacella" | ||||||||
synonyms |
≡Agaricus (Lepiota) oblitus Peck. 1873. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 41.
≡Lepiota oblita (Peck) Sacc. 1887. Syll. Fung. 5: 71. 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. | ||||||||
etymology | oblitus, "forgetful" or "indifferent" or "neglectful" | ||||||||
MycoBank nos. | 530309, 505675 | ||||||||
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holotypes | NYS | ||||||||
intro |
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pileus | Smith (1945): 50–75 mm wide, alutaceous inclining to tawny, faintly darker over umbo, convex or expanded, subumbonate, with surface smooth or obscurely spotted or scaly from the rupturing of the universal veil; context not described; margin not described; gluten layer present. | ||||||||
lamellae | Smith (1945): free, crowded, whitish or yellowish, sometimes forked; lamellulae not described. | ||||||||
stipe | Smith (1945): 50–70 × ca. 6 mm, cylindric or narrowing upward, smooth in apical region, viscid below partial veil; bulb not described; context stuffed or hollow; partial veil obsolete, floccose; gluten layer probably as sheath. | ||||||||
odor/taste | not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none described. | ||||||||
pileipellis | probably absent. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | fertile?? | ||||||||
basidiospores | Smith (1945): [-/-/-] 5 – 6 × 3 – 4 µm, (est. Q’ = 1.57), smooth, hyaline, colorless. [Note: Data does not permit estimation of a range of Q; hence, no sporograph can be generated.] | ||||||||
ecology | Smith (1945): In deciduous woods. | ||||||||
material examined | U.S.A.: NEW YORK—?? s.d. ?? s.n. (holotype, NYS). | ||||||||
discussion | H.V. Smith says this species is close to, if not a synonym of, L. floridana. However, the spores of the two species differ in both size and shape, according to Smith’s data; and she describes the partial veils in different terms. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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