Amanita conara Tulloss & Halling

Filed As

Agaricaceae
Amanita conara Tulloss & Halling ( paratype )

Collector(s)

R. E. Halling 7272 with T.J. Baroni, 11 Jun 1994

Location

Costa Rica. Cartago. ± 4 km E of km 31 of Interamerican Highway, near town of Palo Verde.

Habitat

Mixed forest. Quercus oocarpa. Gregarious. On soil.

Description

P6-15 cm broad, convex to plane, dry, grayish orange (6B4), glabrous and shiny, covered with brown pyramidal volval warts over the disc, with flattened pale brown felty volval warts toward margin, with white minute warts at margin. Flesh white, unchaning , up to 1.5. cm thick, with pungent, unpleasant "old ham" "dirty gym socks" odor, not tasted. Lamellae free, crowded, up to 1.5 cm broad, pale yellow to pale orange (4A4-5A3), with white fimbriate edges; lamellulae truncate. Stipe 8-16 cm long, 1.5 -2.5 cm broad, broadly clavate bulbous (up to 6 cm broad), dry naked on bulb, squamulose scaly above bulb towards annulus, pulverulent above that, assuming pale pink tints above bulb with age and /or handling. Volval remnants floccose, hanging from margin of pileus before partial veil expansion, pale pinkish. partial veil floccose warty on underside, splitting radially , extremely fragile, sometimes disappearing or remaining as partial fragments near stipe apex, occasionally with a thickened free limb. p-Creso (+) red brown throughout except lamellae.

Notes (shown on label)

Measurements and descriptions included with specimen: extensive notes included, "7 oct 2002 RET Zeiss", "i.XII.2004, RET Zeiss"

Specimen Notes

Duplicate in USJ

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 776027

Occurrence ID: 860b0e8b-76f8-418d-b5e2-4b75177d3ee6

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