| Amanita pumatona G. S. Ridl. "Maori Gray Lepidella" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Ridley (1991). The cap of Amanita pumatona is 50 - 80 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, eventually depressed in the center, viscid when young or wet, pale buff, buff, or sordid buff, with an appendiculate margin with friable volva remnants. The volval remnants form a thick covering of pale grayish sepia to pale smoke-gray warts, either isolated or connected at the base to form "sheets." The volval remnants are easily removed when handling, tending to litter the substrate around specimens. When removed, they leave a "reticulate pattern of shallow depressions." The flesh is white. Gills are crowded, free, white 5 - 11 mm wide; the short gills are subtruncate. Its stem is 80 - 97 × 9 - 20 mm, solid, from clavate to bulbous, sparsely floccose or breaking into fine bands, white above the ring, white to smoke-gray and finely scaled below ring. Volva as concentric rings of thick, fleshy scales or warts form at the base, rarely leaving a band around the lower stem. The base is occasionally radicating. The bulb is 22 - 44 mm wide. The ring friable, finely striate, tending to break up, often lost, white, then pale yellowish. The flesh is white. The spores measure 9 - 12× 5.5 - 8 µm and are ellipsoid to elongate and amyloid. Clamps are frequent at bases of the basidia. Originally described from the southern part of the North Island, New Zealand associated with Southern Beech (Nothofagus). Known only from the type locality. Ridley associated this species with Bas' stirps Microlepis.
In particular, he compares it to A.
atkinsoniana
Coker. Members of stirps Microlepis has previously been
reported only from eastern and southern North America and far-eastern
Asia. Return to Section Lepidella page. Last changed 26 May 2006. |