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24-26 December 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita carolinensis is a new nom. prov.
for a probable North Carolinian species assigned to section
Vaginatae.
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-M15.
14-15 December 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-61 is apparently a novel species
of the
Vaginatae found in eastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Updated techtab:
Amanita justicei.
5 December 2017
New taxon page:
Limacella bangladeshana.
Updated techtab:
Limacella bangladeshana.
26 November 2017
Updated brief tab:
Amanita foetidissima.
Updated techtab:
Amanita foetidissima.
14-23 November 2017
Two new taxa of section
Caesareae are now represented by
preliminary taxon pages on this site:
Amanita chatamagotake and
A. kitamagotake. The two species were described from
Japan. A new species of section
Vaginatae has
been added:
Amanita glarea. The latter was described
from Pakistan.
Characterizations of sections
Caesareae and
Vaginatae have
been made more precise and clear.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita foetidissima and
A. glarea
29-30 October 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita cingulata is a new species of
Amanita section
Vaginatae bearing a partial veil; it
is described from China. Detailed genetic information is
not yet posted in GenBank. Two single gene trees
have been published indicating the closest genetic affinity may be to
A. insinuans.
Updated techtab:
Amanita alpinicola.
24 October 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cyclops,
A. marmorata,
A. rooseveltensis, and
A. sp-QUE04.
15 October 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita alpinicola of sect.
Amanita.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita alpinicola.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita alpinicola and
A. atkinsoniana
6 October 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-21, in section
Vaginatae.
Update brief tab:
Amanita sp-21.
Update techtab:
Amanita sp-21.
25 August 2017
Updated techtab:
Amanita daimonioctantes.
11 August 2017
Updated techtab:
Amanita rooseveltensis.
6-7 August 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-N68 is a
new species of section
Vaginatae.
The name "
Amanita cyclops" replaces
"
Amanita sp-n68."
Updated brief tab:
Amanita cyclops.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cattaraugana,
A. cyclops, and
A. rooseveltensis.
20 July 2017
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-F14.
11-17 July 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita rooseveltensis
and
A. sp-N45.
5-10 July 2017
Upated brief tab:
Amanita sp-NFL08.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita magnivelaris,
A. sp-AZ-28,
A. sp-NFL02,
A. sp-NFL08, and
A. sp-QUE04.
26-30 June 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita penetratrix,
A. preissii,
A. sp-60,
A. sp-N58, and
Limacella glischra.
10-11 June 2017
New taxon page: A new name (
Amanita luzernensis)
is proposed to replace the temporary code "
A. sp-N67."
Another set of sequences has been derived from a new collection of the
species.
Updated techtab:
Amanita luzernensis.
6-9 June 2017
Updated brief tab:
Amanita jacksonii and
A. sp-60.
Updated techtab:
Amanita jacksonii,
A. kryrhodon,
A. proxima,
A. sp-60,
A. sp-GSM05, and
A. sp-N67.
1-3 June 2017
English names: In keeping with their oddity, the English names of
taxa in [section
Vaginatae] stirps
Strobilaceovolvata will
now be called "Ringed Ringless Amanitas" in these pages.
New taxon page:
Amanita hahatonka is a provisionally named
species of series
Penetratrices, in section
Vaginatae.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita hahatonka,
A. insinuans,
A. madagascariensis,
A. sp-Arora-01-555,
and
A. strobilaceovolvata.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita hahatonka,
A. insinuans,
A. sp-AZ29,
and
A. texasorora.
24 May 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita rooseveltensis.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita rooseveltensis.
Updated techtab:
Amanita rooseveltensis.
11-15 May 2017
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita cornelii
and
A. emodotrygon.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita alligator,
A. cornelii,
A. sp-AZ28, and
A. sp-AZ30.
4-5 May 2017
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita cornelii and
A. emodotrygon.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cornelii,
A. emodotrygon, and
A. porphyria.
1 May 2017
Updated techtab:
Amanita rhacopus.
29 Apr. 2017:
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chlorinosma,
A. penetratrix,
A. petersenii,
A. sp-Arora-01-555, and
A. thiersii.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-Arora-01-555.
23-24 Apr. 2017:
Updated techtabs:
Amanita penetratrix
and
A. roseolescens.
21 Apr. 2017:
Updated techtabs:
Amanita justicei and
A. penetrans.
17-18 Apr. 2017:
New taxon:
Amanita sp-60 is new from the New Jersey pine
barrens. It has a striking, pronounced umbo and, although the genetic
data are incomplete, it appears to belong in the "__penetratrix__
group."
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-T06.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita glenosoma,
A. kundabungii,
A. minnesorora,
A. penetratrix,
A. sp-60,
A. sp-MO06,
A. sp-N63,
A. sp-T06,
A. suballiacea, and
A. texasorora.
13-15 Apr. 2017:
Updated techtabs:
Amanita minnesorora,
A. sp-MO06,
A. sp-N63,
A. suballiacea,
and
A. texasorora.
4-11 Apr. 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita glenosomma is added from eastern
Pennsylvania. It is the only known example of a genetically very
distinctive grouping within the
provisional series
Penetratrices.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita glenosomma,
A. petersenii,
and
A. sp-MO06.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita amerivirosa,
A. cattaraugana,
A. glenosomma,
A. minnesorora,
A. sp-AUS08,
A. sp-MO06,
A. suballiacea,
A. texasorora, and
A. virosa.
31 Mar. - 1 Apr. 2017
Renamed taxon page:
Amanita sp-HON09 becomes
A. hallingiana nom. prov. in honor of Dr. Roy E. Halling. The taxon
is a novel speciese of the pantheroid type in section
Amanita
known from forests containg
Quercus in central Mexico, Honduras,
and Costa Rica.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita hallingiana.
Updated techtab:
Amanita hallingiana.
18-24 Mar. 2017
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita arenicola,
A. porphyria, and
A. sp-AUS08.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita penetratrix,
A. porphyria,
A. sp-N61,
A. sp-N66,
A. sp-N67,
A. suballiacea,
A. texasorora, and
Limacella sp-CMP0152.
15-16 Mar. 2017
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-N66 and
A. sp-N67 are
new in section
Vaginatae.
Updated brief pages:
Amanita sp-N66 and
A. sp-N67.
Updated tech tabs:
Amanita arenicola,
A. sp-N61, and
A. sp-T48.
6-13 Mar. 2017
Yellow reaction to 10% KOH on caps of dried specimens of white
destroying angels: After many requests of over many years concerning
whether one can expect a yellow reaction in dried material of "white
destroying angels," I carried out a few experiments to check this
issue. I selected material of
A. suballiacea and
A.
amerivirosa that had yielded a positive yellow reaction when tested
in the fresh condition. I used only pieces of caps that had dried to
a whitish or whitish tan color. For both species, I placed at least
one drop of KOH on the extracted cap fragment and then at a large window
(natural day light) I compared the surface of the cap fragment to the
surface of the untreated original cap. In both species the fragment
exposed to KOH was distinctly more yellow than the untreated dried
cap.
Revised regional checklist: "Checklist of Amanita taxa found in
sub-Saharan Africa."
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita amerivirosa,
A. bisporigera,
A. sp-T48, and
A. suballiacea.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita arenicola,
A. gleocystidiosa,
A. ravenelii,
A. sp-N61,
A. sp-T48, and
A. texasorora.
2-4 March 2017
New taxon pages:
Amanita gleocystidiosa and
A.
sp-T48k. The latter is a apparently a new species of section
Vaginatae from eastern Texas.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita gleocystidiosa and
A. sp-T48.
27 Feb. 2017
Updated brief tab:
Amanita velosa.
Updated techtab:
Amanita velosa.
24 Feb. 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita justicei,
A. murrilliana,
A. rhacopus,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-AZ30,
A. sp-OR01, and
A. vernicoccora.
18-21 Feb. 2017
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-N61.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita rhacopus,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-N61,
A. sp-N65,
A. texasorora,
and
A. vernicoccora.
13-15 Feb. 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita alligator,
A. justicei,
A. melleialba,
A. penetratrix,
A. pseudosychnopyramis,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-AZ29,
A. sp-MO06,
A. sp-N63,
A. subparvipantherina, and
A. vernicoccora.
11 Feb. 2017
Updated techtab:
Amanita rhacopus.
6-10 Feb. 2017
New taxon pages: Three possibley new species of section
Vaginatae have pages created for them—
Amanita sp-AZ28
possibly close to
A. nishidae),
A. sp-AZ29 (a new
member of series
Penetratrices, and
A. sp-AZ30.
All these taxa were differentiated by DNA sequencing and comparison.
The sequences were derived from material collected by Dr. Jack S. States
in the last two decades of the last century.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. justicei,
A. murrilliana,
A. penetratrix,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-AZ29,
A. spAZ30,
A. sp-GSM05, and
A. sp-OR01.
1-3 Feb. 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-MO06, a speces of section
Vaginatae, has been added to this site.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita justicei and
A. sp-MO06.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis and
A. sp-MO06.
30-31 Jan. 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. justicei,
A. sp-44,
A. sp-56,
A. sp-N65,
and
A. sp-T06.
26-29 Jan. 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita justicei of section
Vaginatae is, at present, known only from Missouri.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita justicei,
A. keesii,
A. sp-44,
A. sp-56,
A. sp-N65,
A. sp-T06,
and
A. wellsii.
24 Jan. 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-N65,
section
Vaginatae.
17-19 Jan. 2017
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cruetilemurum,
A. rubescens var.
alba,
A. sp-amerirubescens01,
A. sp-amerirubescens02,
A. sp-amerirubescens05, and
A. sp-amerirubescens07.
12-13 Jan. 2017
Name changes: The provisional name
Amanita petersenii
replaces the temporary code
A. sp-S06. The provisional name
A. albemarlensis replaced the temporary code
A. sp-V04
A preliminary attempt to give some structure
to the so-called "
penetratrix group" has resulted in the creation
of a provisional
Amanita [sect.
Vaginatae] series
Penetratrices. The reader will find that some of the species
within the series have been grouped in stirpes (singular is
"stirps"—Latin for "group"). At the moment, these stirpes collect
(1) a group with weak, graying volva, (2) a group with persistent partial
veil, (3) a group of taxa with a warted universal veil and no partial veil, and (4)
a group containing only
A. cinderellae. All this is
temporary and
crudely drawn.
It was very satisfying to find that it might eventually
be possible to see groups in the proposed
Penetratrices that
suggest evolution from a common ancestor with the
Caesareae.
The
Penetratrices (as proposed) appear to include about
10% of the presently known
Vaginatae.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. petersenii,
A. rubescens var. alba,
and
A. sp-amerirubescens05.
9-10 Jan. 2017
Updated brief tab:
Amanita rubescens var.
alba.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chiricahuana,
A. homolae,
A. insinuans,
A. kryorhodon,
A. rhacopus,
A. rubescens var.
alba,
A. semiobruta,
A.
sp-amerirubescens01,
A. sp-amerirubescens02,
A. sp-amerirubescesn04,
A. sp-AUS08,
A. sp-AUS14,
A. texasorora, and
A. xanthomitra.
5-8 Jan. 2017
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-V04 is a new species of section
Vaginatae genetically similar to the
A. penetratrix
group.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-amerirubescens05
and
A. sp-V04.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita penetratrix,
A. sp-amerirubescens05,
A. sp-V04,
A. texasorora,
and
A. xanthomitra.
1-4 Jan. 2017
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New taxon page:
Amanita sp-AUS14 is a code
numbered probable species—an Australian taxon from section
Amanita.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-AUS14 and
A. texasorora.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chiricahuana,
A. kryorhodon,
A. maryaliceae,
A. rhacopus,
A. semiobruta, and
A. texasorora.
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As in previous years, these stats do not include visits by spiders, worms,
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