Site news 2019
17-24 December 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. ameripanthera,
A. pseudoinsinuans,
A. subvaginata,
and
A. sp-T47.
8-12 December 2019
Consolidated pages:
Amanita sp-N46 is merged with
A. carolinensis.
Amanita sp-pseudocrocea02 is
merged with
A. sp-T47.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita carolinensis,
A. castellae,
A. fulva North American,
A. justicei,
A. longicuneus,
Amanita sp-T47, and
A. texasorora.
1-6 December 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita lewisii is proposed provisionally for
what appears to be a new taxon known from two counties of Texas.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albiceps,
A. justicei,
A. lewisii,
A. lindgreniana,
A. penetrans,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. sp-NFL09, and
A. sp-WI03.
26-30 November 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-pseudocrocea02 is a new possible
species
introduced with a nearly bare page. It is based on the nrDNA of a
single collection from Ontario, Canada. It is close to, but possibly
distinct from, the known nrDNA from
A. sp-T47.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita fulva,
A. insinuans,
A. maryaliceae, and
A. rooseveltensis.
16-22 November 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita homolae,
A. rooseveltensis,
and
A sp-A03.
12-14 November 2019
Updated brief tab:
Amanita lindgreniana.
Updated techtab:
Amanita castellae.
3-9 November 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita oakmanensis is a new species of the
provisional series
Penetratrices from Georgia.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita calisorora and
A. sp-NFL03.
Updated tech tabs:
Amanita audubonensis,
A. justicei,
A. kryorhodon,
A. longicunesu,
A. oakmanensis,
A. penetrans,
A. pinchotensis,
A. rhacopus,
A. simulans,
A. sp-58,
sp-C22,
A. sp-constricta04,
A. sp-LA03,
A. sp-LA04,
A. sp-M13,
A. sp-N63,
A. sp-N66, and
A. sp-NFL03.
28 October 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita batonrougensis and
A. sp-constricta04.
Updated techtab:
Amanita batonrougensis and
A. sp-constricta04.
16 October 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita pseudopenetrans.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita jakeslandingensis and
A.
scutum.
6-9 October 2019
New provisional grouping:
Amanita stirps
Crassiputamen.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita crassiputamen,
A.
pinchotensis,
A. sp-IN02,
A. sp-N66,
A. sp-N68,
A. sp-S14, and
A. stannea.
1 October 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita penetrans and
A. pinchotensis.
26-30 September 2019
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-C28 (from California) and
A.
pinchotensis (from Pennsylvania) are proposed in section
Vaginatae.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita fulva,
A. pinchotensis,
A. sp-C22,
A. sp-IL01,
A. sp-LA03,
A. sp-N27,
A. sp-N45, and
A. variicolor.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita simulans.
12-20
September 2019
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-C27 a new white species in
section
Vaginatae from California;
A. sp-MO08 is new in the
Vaginatae from Missouri; and
A. sp-F17 is also new in
the same section from near Tallhassee, Florida.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita georgiensis,
A. longicuneus,
A. luzernensis,
A. sp-C27,
A. sp-F17,
A. sp-N66,
A. texasorora, and
Limacella sp-L-T01.
11 September 2019:
New page:
Amanita sp-C26 of
Amanita stirps
Populiphila, a species with black fibrils on the stipe (sometimes)
and no rusty staining.
Update techtabs:
Amanita castellae,
A. rhacopus.
A. rooseveltensis,
A. sp-C26, and
A. sp-V03.
7 September 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita penetratrix.
1-5 September 2019
Updated brief tab:
Amanita pseudopenetrans.
Updated techtab:
Amanita cokeri,
A. media,
A. ostendemihi,
A. radiata, and
A. sp-58.
29-31 August 2019
A confusion eliminated: The confusion regarding the section to
which
Amanita sp-N58 should be assigned is resolved. The
species appears to belong to stirps
Strobilaceovolvata in section
Vaginatae.
Although, the single collection of
A. sp-N49
(made on the same foray as the initial collection of
A. sp-N58 and
also assignable to the provisional series Penetratrices) did
not have a partial veil when collected, what we know of the two temporarily
coded organisms suggest that they are very similar and might be a single
taxon.
Update techtabs:
Amanita insinuans,
A. sp-N49, and
A. sp-N58.
24-27 August 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita audubonensis,
A. penetrans,
A. sp-rubescens01 and
A. sp-rubescens02.
20-21 August 2019
Merging of pages:
Amanita sp-amerifulva01 has been merged
with
A. fulva—North American.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita audubonensis,
A. crassiputamen,
A. fulva North American,
A. lividopallescens,
A. pahasapaensis,
A. sp-PORT03,
and
A. supravolvata.
12-18 August 2019
Updated brief tab:
Amanita fulvoides and
A. sp-NW09.
Updated techtab:
Amanita fulvoides,
Amanita
pseudopenetrans, and
A. supravolvata.
8-9 August 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita paludosa is a species we have assigned
Amanita stirps
Friabilis.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-T24.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita friabilis
and
A. paludosa.
20-21 July 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita mansehraensis has recently been
described from Pakistan. It is a species of section
Vaginatae
with the most common form of nrLSU 5' motif.
Updated techtab:
Amanita mansehraensis.
16-18 July 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita audubonensis,
A. lividopallescens, and
A. sp-C22.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita audubonensis,
A. brunneoumbonata,
A. cinnamomea,
A. lividopallescens,
A. maryaliceae,
and
A. sp-C22.
15 July 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-PORT01,
A. sp-PORT02,
and
A. sp-PORT03.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-PORT01,
A. sp-PORT02,
and
A. sp-PORT03.
12 July 2019
New species:
Amanita sp-IN02 is a new species of "ringed
ringless Amanita" from Indiana.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-IN01.
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-IN02.
9-10 July 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-rubescens01 and
A. rubescens02 have been added to the site. One of the new
pages will probably be merged eventually with
A. rubescens.
Until we
have a decision on this we will maintain separate pages. We ask for
your patience as always.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-amerirubescens02,
A.
rubescens01, and
A. rubescens02.
7-8 July 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita rooseveltensis
and
A. sponsus.
4-6 July 2019
New taxon page Two new or unrecognized species from Europe.
The first is distinguished
by unusual characteristics of its fragmented nrITS and its nrLSU has been
added with the temporary code
Amanita sp-ITAL02. The second is
distinguished by its (not fragmented) DNA.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-ITAL02 and
A. sp-ITAL03.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cetivenorus,
A. cyclops,
A. penetratrix,
A. sp-61,
A. sp-ITAL02, and
A. sp-ITAL03.
26-30 June 2019
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-C24 and
A. sp-C25 are
new species of section
Vaginatae from California, U.S.A.
Amanita sp-C18 is replaced by a provisional name,
A. calisorora.
To explore further: It may be that the temporary code
Amanita
sp-amerirubescens07 should be seen as a taxonomic synonym to
A.
maryaliceae. The nrITS and nrLSU sequences are sometimes both
pairwise identical in terms of alignments or BLAST results.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita austrowellsii.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita austrowellsii,
A. ifeifensis,
A. maryaliceae,
A. media/radiata,
A. ostendemihi,
A. sp-C24,
A. sp-C25,
A.
sp-amerirubescens07,
A. sponsus,
A. virginiana,
and
A. wellsii.
22-23 June 2019
Added taxon page:
Amanita oldwickensis added in skeletal
form.
New provisional name: Amanita sp-WI02 and A. sp-GSM07 are combined
under a new provisional name,
Amanita jakeslandingensis.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita jakeslandingensis
and
A. oldwickensis.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita jakeslandingensis,
A. oldwickensis, and
A. velatipes.
19-21 June 2019.
Added taxon pages:
Amanita sp-constricta01
and
A. sp-constricta04.
New provisional name:
Amanita lindgreniana replaces the
temporary code
A. sp-WA03.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita constricta,
A, crassiputamen,
A. pachycolea,
A. pachyvolvata,
A. sp-constricta01,
and
A. sp-constricta04.
15-16 June 2019
New taxon:
Amanita ifeifensis is proposed on the grounds of
microanatomy (unusually elongate to cylindric spores) and a good quality
sequence covering the ITS part of the proposed barcode gene and more than
1100 characters of a contiguous nrLSU segment.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita ifeifensis.
Updated techtab:
Amanita ifeifensis
and
A. penetratrix.
10-14 June 2019
New taxa:
Amanita scutum is proposed as the name of an
apparently new taxon with three color zones on the cap having a
dark-light-dark ordering and the less common nrLSU 5' motif seen in
A.
penetratrix and other recently proposed species of the
Vaginatae. Two new species of section Phalloideae have been
described from Africa—
A. bweyeyensis and
A. harkoneniana.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita maryaliceae
and
A. ostendemihi.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita bweyeyensis,
A. harkoneniana,
Amanita maryaliceae,
A. ostendemihi,
A. scutum,
and
Amanita sp-GSM02.
5-9 June 2019
New taxa:
Amanita petroleum is a newly proposed taxon from
the Gulf Coast states of the U.S. with a very black cap that can be quite
viscid when wet. It can be mistaken for
A. anthracina in the
field. We are just beginning to learn about it, and a new page has been
established for it.
Amanita pseudoinsinuans is another, new "ringed
ringless amanita." Its cap is distinctly more brown than that of
insinuans.
Its volva appears to become gray and friable. These taxa were found by
Logan
Wiedenfeld and were distinguished molecularly using data from Stephen
Russell and colleagues at Purdue. The temporary code name
"
Amanita sp-MO02" is replaced by a provisional name
A.
ostendemihi."
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita ostendemihi,
A. petroleum,
and
A. pseudoinsinuans.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita ostendemihi,
A. petroleum,
A. pseudoinsinuans, and
A. sp-C22.
3 June 2019
New taxon:
Amanita sp-LA03 is an apparently new taxon of
section
Vaginatae from Louisiana with a dark brown cap.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita supravolvata.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-C05 and
A. supravolvata.
27-31 May 2019
Deleted temporary codes:
Amanita sp-IA01 is synonymized with
A.
rooseveltensis. Data from the deleted page has been merged with
the data for
A. rooseveltensis. Two Norwegian collections
treated formerly as "sp. NOR1" are genetically identical to
A.
cetovenoris.
Amanita sp-longicuneus02
has been given a provisional name,
"
Amanita salmonriverensis."
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita cetovenoris
and
A. rooseveltensis.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cetovenoris,
A. elongatior,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. salmonriverensis, and
A. sp-N61.
22-23 May 2019
Site changes:
Amanita sp-C23 will be merged with
A.
crassiputamen based on new genetic data. A new probable species
known from Louisiana will be proposed with the name
Amanita audubonensis, in honor of Audubon Park in New
Orleans.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita crassiputamen.
Updated techtabe:
Amanita crassiputamen,
A. sp-N46, and
A. supravolvata.
17 May 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita luteolovelata.
13-15 May 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-F05 based on a 1985 Greg Wright
collection from Florida has been posted on the site because of a good
quality nrITS sequence based on data from NAMP (Purdue).
Merging of pages: The data for the former
Amanita sp-AZ30 is
being merged into the page for
A. pahasapaensis. The
temporary code "
Amanita sp-AZ30" will be permanently retired.
Amanita sp-AZ29 has been merged with
Amanita castellae for
similar reasons (new data acquired).
More specific grouping:
Amanita sp-PORT02 is moved to stirps
Rooseveltensis.
Updated technical tabs:
Amanita austrowellsii,
A. castellae,
A. pahasapaensis,
A. petersenii, and
A. sponsus.
9 May 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita zonata,
A. brunneomaculata,
A. lanigera,
A. parvicurta, and
A. pinophila
Updates techtabs:
Amanita batonrougensis and
A. subovalispora.
7-8 May 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita batonrougensis,
A. neocinctipes,
A. olivaceofusca,
A. orienticrocea,
A. pallidozonata,
A. retenta,
A. shennongjiana,
A. sp-AUS13, and
A. tenuifulva
Updated techtabs:
Amanita batonrougensis,
A. longicunreus,
A. sp-AUS18,
A. sp-AZ31,
A. sp-DR01,
A. sp-ITAL01,
A. spreta,
and
A. waterlooensis.
2-4 May 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita alboumbelliformis,
A. fuscoflava,
A. pseudoprinceps,
A. rubroflava,
A. sp-C22,
A. squarrosipes, and
A. sp-AUS13.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chuangtuia,
A. chiui,
A. griseoumbonata,
A. neocinctipes,
A. olivaceofusca,
A. orientifulva,
A. pallidozonata,
A. retenta,
A.
shennongjiana,]
A. ap-AUS13,
A. tenuifulva,
and
A. zonata.
30 April 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita aestivalis and
Amanita
brunnescens.
24 April 2019
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita flavopantherina,
A. griseopantherina, and
A. pseudopantherina.
17-19 April 2019
News: In the button stage, the cap of
Amanita submaculata
may be entirely white, with the typical pigmentation developing as the cap
begins to expand. This discovery is due to the collecting,
photography, observation, and persistence of David Wasilewski. See
here.
Amanita
lignitincta has been validated.
Brief tab:
Amanita lignitincta.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita fulva—Eurasian,
A. lignitincta, and
A. submaculata.
6-9 April 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita georgiensis,
A. suballiacea, and
A. waterlooensis.
27 March 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita cornelihybrida,
A. sp-AUS13,
and
A. waterlooensis.
20-24 March 2019
New taxon pages: Two new provisional names are proposed for apparent
taxa in section
Vaginatae:
Amanita batonrougensis and
Amanita waterlooensis. The temporary code,
Amanita sp-LA01 is
now permanently retried. The material previsously under that name is
now considered to be
A. batonrougensis. A new grouping of taxa
in section
Vaginatae has been identified as
Amanita stirps
Rooseveltensis.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita batonrougensis.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita batonrougensis,
A. coprinopsoides,
A. penetratrix, and
A. waterlooensis.
14-17 March 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-DR02 has been added represeting
a new species of
Amanita section
Vaginatae from the Dominican
Republic.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita velatipes.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita pakimpondensis,
A. sp-DR01,
A. sp-DR02, and sp-LA02.
9-11 March 2019
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-AZ31 is an apparently new species
of section
Vaginatae having the characteristic nrLSU 5' motif of
"series
Penetratrices"; it is reported from Arizona.
Amanita sp-AUS18 is a new
species of
Amanita (sect.
Amanita) stirps
Umbrinella reported in association with
Eucalyptus from
New South Wales.
Updated tech tabs:
Amanita albertellarum,
A murinoflammeum,
A. penetratrix,
A. roseolamellata,
A. sp-AUS18,
A. sp-AZ31,
A. umbrinella,
and
A. umbrinelloides.
7-8 March 2019
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-ITAL01 is a species not presently
having an identified sequence deposited in GenBank. The nrITS for the new
cryptonom. temp. matches an environmental sample from a
Quercus root
tip collected in Germany (GenBank KM576299).
Updated techncial tabs:
Amanita roseolamellata,
A. spreta,
A. thria, and
A. umbrinella.
2 March 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita sponsus.
26 February 2019
Updated technical tabs:
Amanita cornelihybrida,
A.
longicuneus,
A. magniverrucata,
A. murrilliana,
A. penetratrix,
A. sp-C22,
A. sp-longicuneus02,
A. sp-Madagasc01,
A. sp-PORT01,
A. sp-PORT02, and
A. sp-T47.
21-25 February 2019
New temporary code:
Amanita sp-subvirginiana01 has been
established in skeletal form to hold data on collections which have been
separated from
A. virginiana and may fit the description of
A.
subvirginiana.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita longicuneus,
A. magniverrucata,
A. smithiana,
A. sp-44,
A. sp-subvirginiana01,
A. subvirginiana,
and
A. virginiana.
19-20 February 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita arenicola,
A. arkansana,
A. atkinsoniana,
A. basii,
A. cinnamomescens,
A. cistetorum,
A. codinae,
A. eijii,
A. goauldiorum,
A. mappa,
A. murrilliana,
A. mutabilis,
A. protecta,
A. pruittii,
A. roseolamellata,
A. simulans,
A. solitaria,
A. sp-amerifulva02,
A. sp-PORT02,
A. spreta,
A. sturgeonii,
A. suballiacea, and
A. tephrea.
12-17 February 2019
Removal of taxon page:
Amanita sp-GSM05 has now been
deleted. The contents of that page have been merged with the
A.
longicuneus page. Macroscopic descriptions on techtabs, GenBank
links, photographs, and spore measurement data are now located on the
correct pages. Please advise RET if you see any problems.
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-longicuneus02,
A. sp-longicuneus03, and
A. sp-longicuneus04.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-SAfr01
and
A. sp-SAfr02.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita austrostraminea,
A. fulva,
A. justicei,
A. kryorhodon,
A. longicuneus,
A. penetratrix,
A. roseolamellata,
A. sp58,
A. sp-amerifulva01,
A. sp-amerifulva02,
A. sp-IA01,
A. sp-longicuneus02,
A. sp-longicuneus03,
A. sp-longicuneus04,
A. sp-NFL11,
A. sp-SAfr01,
A. subparvipantherina, and
A. texasorora.
9-11 February 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chrysoblema,
A. cistetorum,
A. fulva,
A. sp-amerifulva01, and
A. sp-amerifulva02.
5 February 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita fulva.
1-4 February 2019
Taxonomic synonymy rejected: The name
Amanita ochraceomaculata is
re-separated from
A. fulva.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens,
A. elongatior,
A. fulva,
A. morrisii,
A. ocraceomaculatea,
A. sp-amerifulva01,
A. sp-amerifulva02,
A. sponsus,
and
A. sturgeonii.
31 January 2019
New usage of page: The page named
Amanita amerifulva has been
converted to a facility for storage of a list of fulvoid collections that
for one reason or another have not been sequenced. To provide what
seems at present to be a complete set of targets for sequenced collections
in the North American group within
Amanita stirps
Fulva, we
have added two new pages for taxa
that are well supported by DNA studies and are apparently new to North
America. The temporary codes for these pages are
Amanita
sp-amerifulva01 and
Amanita sp-amerifulva02.
28-30 January 2019
Deletion of page/name:
Amanita advenienticometa is superfluous
and is deleted in favor of
Amanita elongatior Lamoureux
nom. prov. All data from the former page has been transferred to the
latter.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita elongatior.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens,
A. elongatior,
A. macerisolum,
A. sponsus, and
A. sturgeonii.
24 January 2019
A page disappears:
Amanita daimonioctantes is now merged with
Amanita fulva. To simplify the maintenance work on the site.
The populations of
A. fulva in North America will be treated
separately from the Eurasian populations of the same species: The former
Amanita daimonioctantes page is now called
"
Amanita fulva—North_American." The former
"
Amanita fulva" page is now called
"
Amanita fulva—Eurasian."
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-C21.
18 January 2019
New taxon page: A new temporary code (
Amanita sp-AUS17) has
been created for a lepidella species
originally collected by Lucy Albertella near her parent's former home in
the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The DNA appears not to be
on record. We will explore whether or not the species has been
previously described.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-AUS17.
Updated tech tab:
Amanita sp-AUS17.
14-15 January 2019:
New name:
Amanita sangabrielensis is a provisional name
replacing
the very old code name
A. sp-C03. The original draft description
was written by Greg Wright, who I have previously recognized for sending me
many amanitas during a period stretching from 30-40 years ago. The
Mycoflora lab and Stephen Russell have made possible the sequencing of nrLSU
DNA from the old material from the San Gabriel Mountains (CA).
Updated techtabs:
Amanita ameripanthera,
A. sangabrielensis,
A. sp-AZ07, and
A. sponsus.
12 January 2019
New Name:
Amanita advenienticometa is a new provisional name
replacing the temporary code
A. sp-N65. At present the species is
known from a few sites between Québec and eastern
Pennsylvania.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita advenienticometa.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita advenienticometa,
A. multisquamosa, and
A. subvelatipes.
8-10 January 2019
New taxon pages: A new taxon page is added for a rubescent species
found in Africa, but possibly not of Africa origin:
Amanita sp-SAfr02. A suspected new species very similar to
Amanita wellsii has a new taxon page under the name
Amanita
austrowellsii.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita austrowellsii,
A.
luteolovelata,
A. sp-amerirubescens05,
A. sp-M15,
A. sp-N65,
A. sp-OR02,
A. sp-SAfr02, and
A. sp-T06.
7 January 2019
Updated techtabs:
Amanita chrysoblema,
A. luteolovelata,
A. sp-SAfr01, and
A. thria.
5 January 2019
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-N65.
2 January 2019
Update techtabs:
Amanita aureosubucula,
A. praeclara,
A. simulans,
A. pubescens sensu Coker,
A. sp-amerirubescens05,
A. sp-amerirubescens07,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-C21,
A. sp-LA02,
A. sp-MN03,
A. sp-N66, and
A. sp-T31.
1 January 2019
Happy New Year.
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-amerirubescens05.
End of year stats (1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 2018)
As in previous years, these stats do not include visits by spiders, worms,
robots, and their ilk. We believe that the following statistics
represent human traffic on the site.
Total visits = 184,656...9% increase... [2017: 169,930...36% over 2016]
Total page-visits = 1,882,460...68% increase... [2017: 1,121,556...9% over 2016]
Total hits = 3,213,164...48% increase... [2017: 2,174,626...8% over 2016]
Total bandwidth = 146.20 GBytes...46% increase... over 2017 [2017: 100.02 GBytes...7% decrease... over 2016]
Total apparent countries of origin of visitors = no stats... [2015: 158]
