| Amanita hongoi
Bas "Hongo's Lepidella"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following combines the description of Bas (1969) with data collected by Z. L. Yang. The cap of A. hongoi is 70 - 170 mm wide, at first hemispherical, then convex to plane, finally somewhat depressed at the center, rather fleshy, white to brownish to yellowish to pale yellowish brown, dry, with a nonsulcate, appendiculate margin. The cap is regularly decorated with medium-sized, brownish, conical warts of volval material that are pyramidal to subpyramidal to subconic, diminishing in size towards the margin. The warts are 1 - 3 mm high, brownish, dirty yellow to pale yellow-brown. The margin of the cap is nonstriate and appendiculate. The gills are crowded, free, rather broad, and white to cream. The short gills are rounded-truncate (to attenuate?). The stem is 80 - 150 x 5 - 45 mm, solid, white to dirty white, becoming brownish with age, flocculose-squamulose, slightly tapering upward, and annulate. The stem is covered with white to brownish squamules. The lower half has many close circles of very minute, brownish, conical to pustule-like warts. The annulus is subapical, white, and fugacious. The spores measure (7.0-) 7.5 - 9.5 (-11.0) x (6.0-) 6.5 - 8.0 (-9.5) µm and are amyloid and globose to broadly ellipsoid. Clamps are not found at bases of basidia. This species was originally described from Japan (Honshu) where it occured in association with fagaceous trees (such as oak) in coniferous-deciduous forest. The species is now also know to occur in China, Korea, Japan, and peninsular southeast Asia. Bas placed A. hongoi in
his stirps Perpasta (see A. perpasta Corner & Bas). Drawing: reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands from Bas (1969) based on watercolor of Dr. T. Hongo (Japan). Photo: Zhu L. Yang (China) Return to Section Lepidella page. Last changed 30 July 2005. |
