Amanita conara Tulloss & Halling

Filed As

Agaricaceae
Amanita conara Tulloss & Halling

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7686 with J. Ammirati, 14 Jun 96

Location

Costa Rica. Cartago. El Guarco (Canton). Estrella ±5 km E of km 31 of Interamerican Highway, near town of Estrella.

Habitat

Submontane forest. Quercus oocarpa & Quercus sp. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

Pileus 5-9 cm broad, convex to plano-convex to plane, dry, with brownish gray pyramidal to truncate-conical volval remnants over disc, resembling felty patches near margin, with surface a light pinkish peach color (nearest 6B4-3), with even margin. Flesh a very pale yellow, up to 1 cm thick, with "dirty socks" or "old ham" "chlorine" odor and a pleasant taste. Lamellae free, crowded, maize yellow to buffy yellow (4A5), with white fimbriate edges, with subtruncate lamellulae. Stipe 6.5-12 cm long, 10-12 mm thick near apex, clavate-bulbous to napiform, up to 5 cm broad in the bulb, naked on the outer side of bulb, sometimes with a circumsessile grayish brown ring around top of bulb or this ring rides up on stipe, with a membranous, skirt-like, fragile apical annulus, cottony floccose before rupture, otherwise surface is pallid to off-white, finely silky fibrillose above, subsquamulose below to top of bulb, with interior pale yellow, developing pale vianceous stains around insect larvae damage.

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in USJ; sampled for DNA sequencing by Naomi Goldman 11 Jan 2013 (see inside box for more information)

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 1393571

Occurrence ID: 713a1d22-764d-4c24-b418-a6a0690d6839

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