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Changes in the
site:
We are sorry to report that due to a
failure of our ISP's back-up system with regard to this particular
page, we have lost one year's data on changes to this site.
Changes between 15.vi.2007 and 8.vi.2008 are apparently
unrecoverable. We will try to create a brief statement of the
major changes during that period as soon
as possible.
2009: 21-30.v, 9.v, 2.v,
18-24.iv, 11.iv,
29-30.iii, 15-23.iii,
2-10.iii, 19-28.ii, 4.ii,
20-27.i, 7-19.i
2008: 7.xi.2008, 20.ix.2008,
15-27.viii, 9.viii,
5.viii, 26.vii,
21.vii, 11-12.vii,
1-10.vii, 10-27.vi,
catch-up.
2006: 25-27.vii, v.
2005: 13-20.vii.
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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.
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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).
21-30.v.2009: Species updated: Amanita armeniaca, A. citrina var. grisea,
A. floridana, A. nigrescens, and A. taiepa.
The world key for Caesareae has been updated by the addition of an inadvertently omitted species -- A. tuza. A collaboration
to initiate work on a world key for approximately 110 species of sect. Amanita has been begun. It is hoped that a draft can be on-line
before the end of 2009.
9.v.2009: Species updated: Amanita ristichii and A. salmonescens.
2.v.2009: Species updated: Amanita pantherina.
18-24.iv.2009: Species updated: Amanita luteofusca, A. pantherina var. pantherinoides,
A. smithiana, and A. subrecutita.
11.iv.2009: Species updated: Amanita brunneolocularis.
Species added: Amanita farinosa sensu Thiers added to sect. Amanita.
29-30.iii.2009: Species updated: Amanita novinupta, A. protecta, and
A. velosa. We've completed the updating of format and the correcting of typos and other
errors in all species of sect. Caesareae having epithets with initials "J" through "Z" inclusive.
15-23.iii.2009: Species updated: Amanita brunneiphylla, A. foetens,
A. lutescens, A. microlepis, A. mumura, A. ochroterrea, A. pareparina, A. pelioma,
A. praelongispora, A. pyramidiferina, and A. thiersii.
We've completed the updating of format and the correcting of typos and other errors in all species of sect. Lepidella having epithets
with initials "A" through "Z" inclusive. We've completed the updating of format and the correcting of typos and other
errors in all species of sect. Caesareae having epithets with initials "M" through "Z" inclusive.
2-10.iii.2009: Species updated: Amanita bresadolana, A. cylindrispora,
A. crassa, A. daucipes, A. elongatispora, A. eriophora, A. gracilienta, A. hiltonii,
Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata, A. muscaria var. muscaria.
Species added: Amanita hyalyuy (recently described from the state of Chiapas, Mexico),
Amanita viscidolutea recently described from Brazil. We've completed the updating of format and the
correcting of typos and other errors in all species of sect. Lepidella having epithets with initials "A" through "H"
inclusive.
19-28.ii.2009: Updated species: Amanita alliacea, A. allostraminea,
A. ameghinoi, A. ananaecipitoides, A. angustispora, A. atkinsoniana, A. basibulbosa,
A. boudieri var. beillei, A. brunneiphylla, A. canescens, A. chlorinosma, A. cinereoconia, A. cinereopannosa,
A. diemii, A. gymnopus, and A. miculifera. Technical description added for A. miculifera.
4.ii.2009: Ten broken links were located on the Amanta Studies site. These have been re-established.
Updated species: Amanita crassiconus, A. flavoconia, A. subnudipes, & A. subvaginata.
20-27.i.2009: Updated species: Amanita morrisii, A. nothofagi,
A. novinupta, and A. rubescens. To avoid writing all the species names, today we've completed the updating of format and
correcting of typos and other errors in all species of sect. Validae having epithets with initials "A" through "Z"
inclusive. Inauguration of 44th U.S. president, Barak Hussein Obama, occurred on 20 January 2009.
7-19.i.2009: Updated species: Amanita constricta, A. farinacea, A. flavipes,
A. nehuta, A. orsonii, A. pakistanica, A. pekeoides,
A. subvaginata, and A. wellsii. "Technical detail" PDFs have been added for A. constricta, A. flavipes, A. orsonii,
A. pakistanica, and A. pekeoides. Illustrations have yet to be added to the PDFs that support the last four species.
7.xi.2008: Updated species: Amanita nivalis.
20.ix.2008: Updated species: Amanita hongoi,
A. kotohiraensis, and A. miculifera.
15-27.viii.2008: Added species: Amanita cruzii
and A. occidentalis.
Updated species: Amanita calyptroderma, A. olivaceogrisea,
A. pantherina var. pantherinoides, A. roseitincta, and A. umbrinidisca.
Provisional names: At the 2008 MSA meeting at Penn State Univ.,
Dr. Paul Carroll mentioned to RET the need for posting useful provisional names with some sort of usable definition
even if they cannot yet be published for some reason. At the same Conference Dr. Tom Bruns mentioned in a
presentation that with a flood of sequences expected to be generated from new diversity sampling protocols and
highly automated new sequencing equipment, the need for taxonomists is even greater than was previously
appreciated. Providing names to go with sequences will be more and more critical in the view of
several of the conference's speakers.
We have hesitated in placing provisional names on the site in
the past, but had to respond to other sites who began to use provisional names of one or the other of our editors.
Perhaps, now is the time to admit that some "numbered" taxa actually have a proposed name that has been
floated here or there in public (although we have often hidden that name behind its "number").
Starting in the next weeks, we will begin to add those provisional names that we believe have sufficient
taxonomic support to be published and survive as "good names" in the future. The first step, as for any name
in the lists on this site, will be to have the provisional names appear in sectional lists. Until a test is
repaired for such a name we can provide a link to whatever information there may be in one of the checklists
(if any) in which at least some useful, ID-supporting information is available.
The first set of provisional names to be added are proposed to belong to subgenus Amanita and
will be provided HERE as they appear in sectional lists:
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Amanita sect. Amanita: Amanita praecox
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Amanita sect. Vaginatae: Amanita albosorora, A. amerifulva, A. borealisorora, A.
cinderellae, A. dulciarii, A. longicuneus, A. williamsiae
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Amanita sect. Amidella: Amanita pseudovolvata, A. whetstoneae
Code cleaning now is complete for the Amanita sect. Amanita and
sect. Vaginatae species lists.
9.viii.2008: As of this date all species pages subordinate to the
list for Amanita sect. Phalloideae have been updated to the current style.
5.viii.2008: The species pages that are subordinate to the list for
Amanita sect. Phalloideae have been update for all species eptithets except those beginning with
the letters "s" through "v."
26.vii.2008: The species pages that are subordinate to the list for
Amanita sect. Phalloideae have been updated for species eptithets beginning with the letters
"a" through "f."
21.vii.2008: Added taxa: Amanita robusta Bouriquet
non Beeli and Amanita robusta var. spinosa Bouriquet have long been on the subsaharan
checklist, but never in the alphabetic list of taxa for section Lepidella this has been remedied. As
a result, the number of taxa listed on the site goes to 550. Today all links from the subsaharan checklist
will lead to pages in the new standard format. The next sectional list to have its code thoroughly cleaned
up will be the list for section Lepidella. [Progress on the sect. Caesareae list has slowed
due to the visit of RET's grandchildren.]
11-12.vii.2008: Updated page: .
The list page for Amanita sect. Validae
has been revised thoroughly as part of our project to abandon WYSIWYG HTML editors in favor of hand coding.
Those of you with cable or satellite connections will probably not see much difference. The download time
of the page will be shortened for those having copper connections. Everybody will have a cleaner looking page.
For the developers, the code is much, much cleaner and, hence, easier to maintain.
All species of the sect. Caesareae list starting with the letters "a" through "p,"
have been updated.
1-10.vii.2008: Mary Tulloss (Roosevelt) has begun to work
on cleaning up and standardizing species pages. Thanks, Mary! She is beginning with the pages
that used to depend from the sect. Vaginatae list, but now depend from the new sect. Caesareae list.
Hopefully, all these pages will soon have links returning them to the correct list page.
Updated page: Amanita afrospinosa, A. alboflavescens, A. ameghinoi, A. coacta,
A. flavescens, A. flavorubens, A. magniverrucata, A. prairiicola,
A. sinicoflava, A. subnudipes, A. volvata, all species of the sect. Caesareae
list starting with the letters "a" through "h," and all species of the sect. Validae
list starting with the letters "a" through "e."
Draft technical descriptions [lacking microscopic illustrations] were added for A. flavescens
and A. subnudipes.
The New Jersey Pine Barrens checklist/picturebook was updated and a broken link was fixed.
Material has been added to the bibliography.
10-27.vi.2008: Additions made to the bibliography.
New species added: Amanita pini of sect. Vaginatae.
Updated species: Amanita caesareaea, A. calopus, A. cinereoannulosa, A. codinae,
, A. lilloi, A. strophiolata, and A. vittadinii. Amanita strophiolata
is tentatively moved from sect. Amidella to sect. Phalloideae
based on RET's examination of authentic material. Many taxa of the sub-Saharan checklist now have
links back to the checklist from the species pages.
Catch-up on the news (June, 2008):
The most significant change during this period was the division of
Amanita sect. Vaginatae sensu Corner and Bas
into sects. Vaginatae and Caesareae (following, for
example, the usage of Yang in recent years.) This led to preparation
of draft review of sect. Caesareae that is now posted on this
site, a world key for the section, and the designation of some draft
stirpes to facilitate development of bottom up study of the section.
[ download Caesareae document ]
The genera Amarrendia and
Torrendia have been included in our site list for sect.
Caesareae. The two genera are also discussed in the
above-mentioned draft document.
Consequently, a sectional list for sect. Caesareae had to be segregated from the sectional
list for sect. Vaginatae. This resulted in many links
having to be altered. There may still be some broken link problems
as a result. Please report them. Many checklists do not yet
reflect the separation of sections. The first checklist to get our
attention on this matter is the list for sub-Saharan Africa.
During examination of its type collection, the proposed species Amanita cystidiosa was discovered to
be a lepiotoid species and must be excluded from Amanita.
It's stipe context is not acrophysalidic. It's lamella trama is not bilateral.
It's spores are dextrinoid. As a result, there are still no known taxa in Amanita which present
cystidia of any type on the lamellae.
Type studies and other research has begun with a view to finding an appropriate
way to include information on the genus Limacella into this
site...thus broadening the site to deal with the Amanitaceae more completely.
Among new amanitas added to the list during "the period of lost news" (that RET can remember)
was A. lippiae in sect. Amanita.
(t.b.d.)
HISTORIC ITEMS
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: 30 May 2009.
This page is maintained by R. E. Tulloss.
Development support for this site provided by Lindsay Possiel during summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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