Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Amanita mappa sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 340 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Amanita phalloides (Fr.) Link 1833

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Nomenclature

Authors

Massee

Original authors

Massee

Publication place

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Year published

1899

Year on publication

1898

Publication page

340

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Amanita mappa (Batsch) Bertill. 1866

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Amanita mappa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Amanitaceae

Genus

Amanita

Species

mappa

Descriptions

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus 6-10 cm. across, rather fleshy, convex, then almost plane, dry, pale-yellow, sometimes whitish or with a tinge of green, with a few irregular patches of the volva adhering; gills slightly adnexed, rather narrow, crowded, white; stem 5-8 cm. long, smooth, white, equal, globosely bulbous at the base; ring superior, soft, usually more or less torn; volva splitting in a circumscissile manner, connate with the base of the stem, free margin narrow; spores subglobose, 7-9 µ. diameter.

Distribution

North Island. Europe, North America.

Habitat

On the ground.

Notes

Smell strong, colour variable. A very poisonous fungus. Allied to Amanita phalloides ; differing in the shorter equal stem and narrow free margin of the volva.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Amanita mappa sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Massee, G.E. (1899)

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Amanita mappa sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Pennycook, S.R. (2004)

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Amanita mappa sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Ridley, G.S. (1991)

Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Amanita mappa sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Amanita phalloides (Fr.) Link 1833

Notes

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

No material; ?= Amanita phalloides

Metadata

Record id

1cb1d39f-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

28 March 2001

Date last updated

28 June 2001

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