| Amanita tijbodensis Boedijn "Boedijn's Javan Death Cap"
Technical Description. (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The cap of Amanita tijbodensis is 60 - 130 mm wide, convex, white, slightly viscid, without volval remnants or sometimes covered with a few large patches, white. The flesh is 4 - 8 mm thick over the stem and rapidly thins near the margin. The gills are free, pale, close to cartridge buff, 5 - 10 mm broad at the midpoint. Short gills are not described. The stem is 100 - 200 × 12 - 25 mm, white, solid at first, becoming hollow in age, barely narrowing upward, with a bulbous base, 25 - 45 mm wide. The ring disappears with age. The stem is decorated with small appressed scales, rapidly becoming smooth. The bulb bares a limbate volva which is not otherwise distinguished from the bulb. The spores measure 6 - 9 µm in diameter and will probably not prove to be perfectly spherical and are amyloid. Clamps are probably absent at base of basidia. This species was originally described from Java and is not widely understood. As a white species of section Phalloideae, it should be expected to be poisonous. We are familiar with this species only from the original description and are very interested in learning more. Will documented material from Java that conforms with this description would be very welcome. -- R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel Return to Section Phalloideae page. Last changed 12 June 2006. |