Site news 2021
1-31 December 2021
New taxa: A new species of section
Vaginatae has been
found in Ontario by Eva Skific—by no means her first; for the moment
it is
Amanita sp-ONT04.
Updated technical tabs:
Amanita hormaniorum,
A. levistriata,
A. sp-N50,
A. sp-ONT04,
and
A. whetstoneae.
1-30 November 2021
New name:
Amanita bynumrunensis is a tiny species of sect.
Vaginatae that was found in Maryland.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita argentea,
A. bynumrunensis,
A. calisorora,
A. fulvoides,
A. instannea,
A. olivaceogrisea,
A. sp-C21, and
A. sp-KY01.
Updated technical tabs:
Amanita alpinicola,
A. audubonensis,
A. aurorae,
A. bensonensis,
A. bynumrunensis,
A. calisorora,
A. coprinopsoides,
A. dryophila,
A. glenosomma,
A. halleniana,
A. justicei,
A. magniverrucata,
A. penetrans,
A. penetratrix,
A. sp-C21,
A. sp-DEUT04,
A. sp-KY01,
A. sp-KY02,
A. sp-MO4,
A. sp-NW09,
A. sp-T48,
A. subbasiana, and
A. trygonion.
1-31 October 2021
New and altered names:
Amanita domingensis was described in
2020 from the Dominican Republic. A taxon page is initiated for
it.
Amanita sp-AZ28 is retired permanently
and replaced by the provisional name
A. instannea. The
entity in question has been
identified by some as A. H. Smith's provisionally named
Amanita stannea;
however the two taxa do not conform morphologically.
"
Amanita sp-T33" is retired permanently and the contents of its
description are being merged with the description of
Amanita trygonion. This now means we have two good,
independent, descriptions of the latter species.
We also have confirmed a second collection of
A. sp-T48 with additional
illustrations to be added to WAO.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-T48 and
A. trygonion.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita arenicola,
A. aurorae,
A. coprinopsoides,
A. justicei,
A. sp-AZ28,
A. sp-MO04 A. sp-T48, and
A. trygonion.
1-30 September 2021
New and renamed taxon pages:
Amanita sp-FRAN02—a white-capped species of
section
Vaginatae sent to the Roosevelt herbarium as
"
A. vaginata var.
alba" and having a previously unrecorded
DNA sequence. At long last,
A. canadensis has been merged
with
A. peckiana.
Amanita sp-F05 has become
A. floridella and the code number has been retired.
A new page
has been introduced in skeletal form for the provisionally named
A.
sylviae. It was collected in Arkansas, near Lake Sylvia by Jay
Justice.
A new page in skeletal form has been introduced for
A. kinkybranchensis
that was collected near Kinky Branch Creek in eastern Texas by David P.
Lewis.
Amanita halleniana is proposed provisionally
in honor or our colleague, Dr. Heaher Hallen-Adams. The species
is assignable to the
Vaginatae and was found in Nebraska.
A new page in skeletal form has been introduced for
A. subbasiana that
was collected in in Wake County, NC by Geoff Balme. This species is genetically
close to
A. basiana and shares with the latter species a friable
volva.
A new page has been introduced in skeletal form for the provisionally named
A. saltpointensis. It was collected at Salt Point California
by Ron Pastorino.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita calisorora
and
A. sp-S12.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita alseides,
A. fulva
unsequenced specimens corral,
A. argentea,
A. aurorae,
A. bensonensis,
A. bleakwoodensis,
A. constricta,
A. elongatior,
A. floridella,
A. glenosomma,
A. halleniana,
A. huijsmanii,
A. kinkybranchensis,
A. obconicobasis,
A. onusta,
A. peckiana,
A. pseudovolvata,
A. rhodinsulae,
A. sharkriverensis,
A. sp-S18,
A. strobiliformis,
A. sylviae,
A. vaginata var.
alba,
A. wellsii, and
A. zayantensis.
1-31 August 2021
New taxon page:
Amanita bleakwoodensis of section
Vaginatae—based on a David P. Lewis collection from his
hometown.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita aurorae,
A. bensonensis,
A. bisporigera,
A. bleakwoodensis,
A. clarionensis,
A. crassiputamen,
A. finisprovinciae,
A. insinuans,
A. justicei,
A. magniradix,
A. obconicobasis,
A. penetratrix,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. sp-M25,
A. sp-MO03,
A. sp-S14, and
A. sp-SAfr02.
1-31 July 2021
Updated techtabs:
Amanita aurorae,
A. bellulasinu,
A. constricta,
A. crassiputamen,
A. fulva,
A. georgiensis,
A. huijsmanii,
A. justicei,
A. longicuneoides,
A. longicuneus,
A. mairei,
A. morrisii,
A. obconicobasis,
A. pahasapaensis,
A. paludosa,
A. penetrans,
A. rhacopus,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. simulans,
A. sp-M25,
A. sp-MO10, and
A. subaurorae.
1-30 June 2021
Merged pages:
Amanita sp-amerifulva02 is merged into
Amanita fulva.
New taxon pages:
Amanita degroveitibiale,
A. sp-F21
A. sp-JPN01,
A. sp-Thai04, and
A. subaurorae.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita carolinensis.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. albiceps,
A. americrocea,
A. aurorae,
A. carolinensis,
A. degroveitibiale,
A. elongatior,
A. fulva,
A. georgiensis,
A. justicei,
A. magniverrucata,
A. ostendemihi,
A. penetrans,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. sarahae,
A. sp-CROAT01,
A. sp-F20,
A. sp-ID01,
A. sp-NFL03,,
A. sp-S17,
A. sp-S18,
A. sp-S19,
A. sp-F21,
A. sp-TANZ01,
A. subaurorae
A. texasorora,
A. umbrinolutea,
A. whetstoneae, and
A. williamsiae.
1-31 May 2021
New taxon pages:
Amanita aurorae and
A. sp-Arora-00-378.
Names consolidated:
Amanita sp-F21 and
A. sp-T47 are
combined in the new name
A. aurorae.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A. albiceps,
A. batonrougensis,
A. bellulasinu,
A. bisporigera,
A. clarionensis,
A. collisus,
A. georgiensis,
A. huijsmanii,
A. justicei,
A. magniverrucata,
A. ostendemihi,
A. penetrans,
A. penetratrix,
A. rooseveltensis,
A. sp-Arora-00-378,
A. sp-CROAT01,
A. sp-F18,
A. sp-F19,
A. sp-S16,
A. sp-S17,
A. suballiacea,
A. spreta,
A. supravolvata,
A. texasorora,
A. wasilewskii, and
A. zayantensis.
25 April 2021
Updated techtab:
Amanita smithiana.
14-16 April 2021
Validation:
Amanita amerivirosa was validated on
31 March.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita amerivirosa,
A.
bisporigera,
A. helmettensis, and
A. sturgeonii.
7-8 March 2021
Apparently new taxa:
Amanita sp-S17,
A. sp-S18, and
A. sp-S19 have been added to the site. The odd-numbered taxa belong
to section
Amidella.
Amanita sp-S18 is assignable to
section
Vaginatae.
Name change:
Amanita sp-longicuneus03 is retired and replaced
with the provisional name
A. longicuneoides.
Update techtabs:
Amanita amerivirosa,
A. longicuneoides,
A. sp-S17,
A. sp-S18,
A. sp-S19, and
A. sp-T51.
4 March 2021
New taxon:
Amanita sp-T51 has been added in section
Amidella.
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-T51.
19 February 2021
New taxon:
Amanita sp-65 of section
Vaginatae
is a predominantly white species from Pennsylvania.
Updated techtab:
Amanita obconicobasis.
11 February 2021
Updated techtabs:
Amanita coryli,
A. finisprovinciae,
A. protecta,
A.sp-54,
A. sp-NW04,
A. sp-OR01, and
A. texasorora
29 January - 1 February 2021
Updated brief tab:
Amanita neocaesariensis.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita clarionensis,
A. farinosa
sensu Thiers, and
A. neocaesariensis.
21-26 January 2021
Updated techtabs:
Amanita olivaceogrisea,
A. paludosa,
A. pseudopenetrans,
A. sp-ROSS01,
A. sp-ROSS02,
and
A. supravolvata.
17-18 January 2021
New taxon pages: Two apparently new taxa from Siberia are
Amanita
sp-ROSS01 and
A. sp-ROSS02 are initiated with the collaboration
of Tatiana Bulyonkova.
4-8 January 2021
Updated techtabs:
Amanita huijsmanii,
A. mairei,
A. neocaesariensis,
A. pascagoula,
and
A. spadicea.
1-2 January 2021
Taxon page chages:
Amanita sp-NFL06 has been merged with
A.
sp-N63 on morphological and genetic grounds. The temporary code
"sp-NFL06" will be permanently retired.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-N63.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita huijsmanii
and
A. sp-N63.
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