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What is the site news page? On this page we communicate our changes to the Amanita Studies site. A visitor familiar with the site can quickly ascertain what has changed since his/her last visit by viewing this page. Items will be added at the top of this page and, after one year in most cases, deleted from the bottom of the page.

We will strive to cover (in brief) nomenclatorial changes and descriptions of new taxa on this page and to provide references in this site's bibliography(ies).

25.iii.2008. Updated: Species lists for section Caesareae has been segregated from the species list of section Vaginatae, and the relevant changes have been made on the main page.  We still need to have taxa in section Caesareae return the viewer to the correct sectional list page.  These necessary changes will be made as time permits. In addition a numbering error in the key to section Caesareae pointed out by Dr. Michael Kuo has been corrected. Our thanks to MK.

4.iii.2008.  Updated page: Amanita nothofagi.

28.ii.2008.  Updated page: Amanita muscaria var. persicina.

10.ii.2008.  Updated page: Amanita subsolitaria.

21-30.i.2008.  Updated home page description of Limacella. Updated page: Amanita aurantisquamosa.

1.xii.2007.  Updated pages: Amanita elegans.  Updated key: Amanita elegans had been erroneously omitted from treatment in the new key to sect. Caesareae.  It probably belongs there; however, re-examination of its basidia for basal clamps is required.  New names: Three (3) taxa of Torrendia and two (2) of Amarrendia are added to the composite checklist for sects. Caesareae and Vaginatae (formerly the checklist for section Vaginatae).  The single sectional list will be separated into two separate lists as time permits.  The name Torrendia arenaria is not currently listed anywhere on this site because its proper sectional placement is not yet clear to the editors.

15-29.xi.2007. A new key to all known taxa of Amanita sect. Caesareae is now available from the key list.  The key is part of an article that accepts emends the definition of the section in order to include secotioid and truffle-like taxa now in the genera Torrendia and Amarrendia.  The acceptance of sect. Caesareae necessitates a major reworking of the sect. Vaginatae species list and approximately sixty species that will be moved to sect. Caesareae.  This will take some time.  New species added: Amanita lippiae.  The bibliography has been expanded by addition of several recent papers.

7-10.xi.2007: Updated pages: Amanita arkansana, A. infusca, A. kalamundae, and A. nothofagi.

31.x.2007: Updated page: Amanita subjunquillea.

25.x.2007: Updated page: Amanita wellsii.

15-20.x.2007: Updated pages: Amanita fritillaria, A. siamensis and A. wellsii.

2-8.x.2007: EMAIL PROBLEMS:  Anyone who has had email returned by the ISP or by an intervening server, please email RET at this address: retamanita@comcast.net and include a copy of all "received" lines from the header of your returned email.  Thank you.  New taxon added: Amanita praelongipes.  Updated pages: Amanita muscaria var. persicina and A. wellsii.

28-30.ix.2007:  Updated page: Amanita hesleri and A. westii.

19-22.ix.2007:  Updated pages: Amanita breckonii and A. recutita sensu Coker.

12-14.ix.2007: The checklist/ picture books for the New Jersey Pine Barrens and surrounding regions, sub-Saharan Africa, and for Newfoundland and Labrador have been updated.  An annotated checklist for species reported from India has been added...this is a PDF made up page images of a recent article (8.5 Mbytes).   Updated pages: Amanita albocreata, A. muscaria var. muscaria, and A. regalis.

2-5.ix.2007: New page: Amanita recutita sensu Coker.  Updated page: Amanita flavorubens.

27-30.viii.2007: Added species:  Amanita recutita sensu Coker (1917) has been added to the section Vaginatae list.  Amanita pubsecens Schwein. sensu Coker (1917) has been added to the section Amanita list.

17.viii.2007:  Updated species: Amanita cylindrispora and A. flavoconia.

13.viii.2007:  Updated species: Amanita aprica, A. hemibapha, and A. manginiana sensu W. F. Chiu.

7-8.viii.2007: Check out our newly updated checklist/picture books.  Updated species.  Amanita longitibiale and A. parcivolvata.

1-4.viii.2007: Check out our checklist/picture books.  Updated species: Amanita biovigera.  A new species has been added to the New Jersey Pine Barrens checklist/picture book -- Amanita sp. N9, in section Vaginatae.  It was previously known to RET only from New York state.

22-31 July 2007: Check out our checklist/picture books.  Updated species: Amanita hemibapha, A. limbatula, A. muscaria var. muscaria, A. parva, A. roseitincta, A. virginiana, and A. westii.

14-17 July 2007: Updated species: Amanita muscaria var. persicina and A. spretella.

19 June 2007: Updated species: Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, A. oberwinklerana, and A. subjunquillea var. subjunquillea.

19 June 2007:  The Amanita  Studies web site is proud to announce that we will be adding a "subsite" for forest restoration and studies in mycorrhizae.  The editor for this new part of our site will be Dr. Anne Pringle (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts).  Any discussions on this "subsite" are preliminary at the present time.  Watch for developments in coming months.

18 June 2007: The Amanita Studies web site is proud to announce that we will be establishing a series of subsites with their own editors.  The look and operation of the site will not change.  The first of these "subsites" to begin organization will address mushroom poisoning in general (with emergency information, links to poison control centers in several areas of the world, etc.) and chemistry of the several groups of toxins in Amanita (with means of accessing recent papers and the home pages of labs where work is currently being done).  We are delighted to report that the editorship for the the toxins and poisoning subsite has been accepted by Dr. Heather E. Hallen (Michigan State University, East Lansing).

12-18 June 2007: Updated species: Amanita aprica, A. lilloi, A. novinupta, and A. oberwinklerana.  The original description of A. aprica has been added in the form of a PDF.  A new illustrated checklist/picture book has been drafted for eastern Texas and the Gulf Coast regions of Louisiana and Mississippi.  That page is currently under continuing development, and it is expected that the Texas checklist will be considerably expanded in the future.  The New Jersey Pine Barrens illustrated checklist has experienced a number of small repairs.  The site bibliography has been expanded.

4-5 June 2007: Updated species: Amanita eijii, and A. similis.  The bibliography has been expanded.  The home page has been extended to include three other genera belonging to the family Amanitaceae.

15 May 2007: Updated species: Amanita eliae.

3-8 May 2007: Updated species: Amanita rubescens and A. xanthocephala.

13-30 April 2007: New species name: The name "A. lanei" has been replaced with an older, probable synonym "A. calyptroderma."  Newly added taxa: A. franchetii and A. franchetii f. lactella.  Updated species: Amanita caesarea, A. calyptrata var. alba, A. calyptratoides, A. flavella, A. hemibapha, A. imazekii, A. lilloi, A. muscaria var. muscaria, A. rhopalopus, A. spretella, A. tuza, and A. verna.  Removal of taxon: A. rhopalopus f. turbinata is proposed to be a synonym of the type form.

HISTORICAL ITEMS: 

6-11 March 2007: Taxon deleted: Amanita pantherina var. lutea is considered to be a synonym of A. parvipantherina.  Updated species: Amanita cinnamomescens.

24-27 February 2007: Excluded species [RET]: The holotype of Amanita cystidiosa O.K. Mill. & Lodge has been examined.  The species has proven not to be an Amanita.  It appears to be lepiotoid.  It lacks bilateral lamella trama and acrophysalidic stipe context (hence, failing to fit the definition of the genus Amanita).  In addition, it has thick-walled, dextrinoid (unknown in Amanita) spores that are barely, or not at all, adaxially flattened (uncommon in Amanita).  The original description emphasizes cheilocystidia and dextrinoid hyphae in the pileus context.  These latter two characters are unknown in the genus Amanita.  The page will remain posted for the time being, but will be accessible from this news item and not from the Amanita sect. Amanita species list page.   Updated pages: Amanita albopulverulenta, A. bingensis, A. gioiosa, A. heterochroma, A. lanivolva, A. lilloi, and A. wellsii.

25-27 July 2006: Added taxa: Amanita cinnamomescens and A. cokeriana. Deleted taxon: Amanita decipiens. New pages: Amanita cinnamomescens, A. javanica, and A. virosa (our 500th species page for the Amanita Studies site). Updated pages: Amanita bisporigera, A. daucipes, A. exitialis, A. flavorubens, A. gracilior, A. morrisii, A. novinupta, A. orsonii, A. rubescens, A. rubescens var. alba, A. rubescens var. congolensis, A. subjunquillea, and A. verna.

May 2006: WELCOME BACK to Lindsay Possiel!  Lindsay is working with us for the third straight summer doing the great job she always does!  We are now well past the major milestone of 400 species covered at levels 1 or 2.

13-20 July 2005: Hats off to Lindsay Possiel, who is working with RET again this summer.  Thanks to Lindsay's hard work, we have passed the major milestone of 300 pages dedicated to individual taxa of Amanita.

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Last change: 25 March 2008.
This page is maintained by R. E. Tulloss.
Development support for this site provided by Lindsay Possiel during summers of 2004,  2005, and 2006.