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Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783

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New Zealand
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Anon
1st Record 1920 (PDD 866)

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Lam.
L.
(L.) Lam.
Lamarck, J.B.A.P. de M. de 1783: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique. 1. Panckoucke; Plomteux.
1783
111
Fr.
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Agaricus muscarius L. 1753
species
Amanita muscaria

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Amanitaceae
Amanita
muscaria

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has mycorrhizal host
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1987)
has host
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
De Roman, M.; Claveria, V.; De Miguel, A.M. (2005)
has mycorrhizal host
Pinus contorta Loudon
Dickie, I.A.; Bolstridge, N.; Cooper, J.A.; Peltzer, D.A. (2010)
has host
Arbutus
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
has host
Nothofagus
Lintott, W.H.
has host
Nothofagus
McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)
has host
Arbutus
Ridley, G.S.; Dick, M.A. (2001)
has mycorrhizal host
Pinus radiata D.Don
Walbert, K.; Ramsfield, T.D.; Ridgway, H.J.; Jones, E.E. (2010)
has host
Pinus radiata D.Don
Walbert, K.; Ramsfield, T.D.; Ridgway, H.J.; Jones, E.E. (2010)
has host
Betula pendula Roth
PDD (6 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Carrière
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Eucalyptus parviflora F. Muell.
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Eugenia smithii Poir. 1789
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Fagus sylvatica L.
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Kunzea
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Larix
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Leptospermum
PDD (2 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Nothofagaceae
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Nothofagus
PDD (5 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.
PDD (3 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Nothofagus nitida (Phil.) Krasser 1896
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.
PDD (15 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole
PDD (3 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Pinus
PDD (7 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Pinus contorta Loudon
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Pinus radiata D.Don
PDD (12 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Populus
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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
PDD (4 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Quercus ilex L.
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
has host
Quercus robur L.
PDD (2 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Tilia cordata
PDD (1 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
is host of
Chalciporus piperatus (Bull.) Bataille 1908
PDD (4 records from New Zealand.) Link to an external page
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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Murray) Parl.
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Pinus strobus L.
PDD (1 records from United States.) Link to an external page

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Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783

Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Basidiomata pileate. Pileus scarlet, paling to orange at the margin, up to 130 mm in diameter, sprinkled with remnants of the volva forming white warty patches which are often arranged concentrically, convex at first, becoming almost plane later, viscid when young, dry later; flesh firm, white. Gills crowded, free, white. Stipe tapering slightly towards the pileus from a bulbous base, white and striate above a membranaceous white to yellowish annulus, white to dirty white below, hollow, up to 170 mm long. Basidiospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 0-septate, 9–11 × 7–8 μm, hyaline, non-amyloid; spore print white.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Fiordland, Marlborough, North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, Dunedin, Southland, Chatham Islands.; 1st Record: Birch (1937).
Significance: This is the classic toadstool familiar to everyone. It is one of the most common and striking agarics associated with introduced tree species in New Zealand. Unlike most introduced mycorrhizal fungi, it has been recorded in indigenous forests in association with Nothofagus and Leptospermum (Stevenson 1962, Horak 1971). Recent reports (Johnston et al. 1998; Orlovich & Cairney 2004) indicate A. muscaria may be locally common in Nothofagus forests in several areas in the South Island. The fungus was isolated from, and experimentally shown to be, a mycorrhizal partner of Pinus radiata (Chu-Chou 1979) and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Chu-Chou & Grace 1981c). It has not been recorded in nurseries and is found only in older (>6-year-old) plantations (Chu-Chou & Grace 1988).; Host(s): Arbutus sp., Betula pendula, Castanea sativa, Eucalyptus ficifolia, E. pauciflora subsp. pauciflora, Fagus sylvatica, Larix decidua, Nothofagus fusca, N. menziesii, N. solandri var. solandri, N. solandri var. cliffortioides, Pinus nigra subsp. laricio, P. radiata, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus robur.
Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783

This conspicuous species occurs in New Zealand under various exotic trees where it forms mycorrhizas, and there is no question that this agaric is an introduced species. However, like Stevenson (25), we found many fruiting bodies of this species in native bush with Nothofagus and Leptospermum. It would be interesting to know if this introduced mycorrhizal fungus can change its host and form partnerships with these two indigenous genera which normally form ectotrophic mycorrhizas with numerous indigenous Agaricales. The wide host range of A. muscaria sugests that this possibility is not unlikely.
Ridley, G.S. 1991: The New Zealand species of Amanita (Fungi: Agaricales). Australian Systematic Botany 4(2): 325-354.

Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783

Basidiocarps medium to large, solitary to gregarious. Pileus to 130 mm, convex to plano- convex, then plano-depressed, margin sulcate (c. 0.07 R), entire, disc scarlet, paling to orange at the margin, then developing a metallic bronze appearance, viscid when young or wet, drying with age, volva remnants forming squarish to pointed, white warts on disc, becoming narrow, flocculent patches towards margin, often arranged concentrically. Lamellae crowded, free, 6- 10 mm wide, white; lamellulae subtruncate. Stipe to 170 mm high, 20-23 mm diameter, hollow, from bulbous base, 32-33 mm diameter, surface above annulus floccose to pulverulent, striate, white, below annulus sparsely floccose, white to sordid white, basal bulb crowned with concentric bands or squarish warts. Annulus membranous, pendulous then adhering to stipe, white to primrose. Context of pileus white, with orange to pale luteous directly under the pileipellis, stipe white.

Spore print white. Basidiospores (20/2), 9-10.5 x 7-5-8 µm, Qm 1. 38, Q 1. 12-1.40, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, hyaline, inamyloid. Basidia 50-63. 5 x 10-13 µm, 4-spored, not clamped. Lamella margin cells indistinct. Pileipellis composed of c. 460 µm wide, gelatinised suprapellis, and dense, non-gelatinised subpellis. Volva remnants from pileus composed of globose, elliptic or clavate, hyaline cells, to 40 x 20 µm, with abundant hyphae to 8 µm wide; tending to vertically arranged on the disc, less so towards the pileus edge.

Stevenson, G. 1962: The Agaricales of New Zealand: II. Kew Bulletin 16(1): 65–74.

Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783

This species often reaches large size in New Zealand, up to 25 cm. diam. and 30 cm. tall. Spores are 8-10 x 11-12um which agrees with the dimen- sions given by Bresadola and is a little larger than 9.5-10.5 x 7-8 which is given by Lange (1935). Colour and other features agree exactly with those of European specimens.
It is very abundant throughout the north island of New Zealand and the northern part of the south island where it is associated with the commonly planted exotic tree, Pinus radiata. However, although P. radiata plantations are numerous further south, A. muscaria is not found with them, its place apparently being taken by Boletus luteus. Besides being associated with Pinus this species has been collected also under Betula, under Spanish Chestnut, in a shrub garden and also once (Stevenson at Lake Rotoiti, Nelson) in Cyathodes scrub near Nothofagus; all these occurrences were far distant from any pine trees.

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Agaricus muscarius L. 1753
Agaricus muscarius L. (1753)
Armstrong, J.B. (1880)
Agaricus muscarius L. 1753
Agaricus muscarius L. (1753)
Fries, E.M. (1821)
Agaricus muscarius L. 1753
Agaricus muscarius L. (1753)
Linnaeus, C. von (1753)
Agaricus muscarius L. 1753
Agaricus muscarius L. (1753)
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. (1783)
Allen, J.W.; Merlin, M.D.; Jansen, K.L.R. (1991)
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Anon.
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Bagley, S.J.; Orlovich, D.A. (2004)
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Birch, T.T.C. (1937)
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783
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Chu-Chou, M. (1979)
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Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1981)
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Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1983)
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Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1983)
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Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.
Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1987)
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Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1988)
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Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1990)
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De Roman, M.; Claveria, V.; De Miguel, A.M. (2005)
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Dickie, I.A.; Bolstridge, N.; Cooper, J.A.; Peltzer, D.A. (2010)
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Dingley, J.M. (1978)
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Dunstan, W.A.; Dell, B.; Malajczuk, N. (1998)
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Freeston, R.; Freeston, A. (2008)
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Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. (1783)
Geml, J.; Laursen, G.A. et al. (2006)
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Hall, I.R.; Buchanan, P.K.; Wang, Y.; Cole, A.L.J. (1998)
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Holden. E.M. (2003)
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Hood, I.A.
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Horak, E. (1971)
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Horne, D. (2000)
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Johnston, P.R.; Buchanan, P.K. (1997)
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Johnston, P.R.; Buchanan, P.K.; Leathwick, J.; Mortimer, S. (1998)
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Lamarck, J.B.A.P. de M. de (1783)
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Lintott, W.H.
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McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)
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Oda, T; Tanaka, C.; Tsuda, M. (2004)
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Orlovich, D.A.; Cairney, J.W.G. (2004)
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Pennycook, S.R. (2004)
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Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
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Rawlings, G.B. (1951)
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Rawlings, G.B. (1958)
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Ridley, G.S. (1991)
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Ridley, G.S. (2004)
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Ridley, G.S.; Dick, M.A. (2001)
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Ridley, G.S.; Horne, D. (2006)
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Ridley, G.S.; Taylor, G.M. (1997)
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Robinson, R. (2010)
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Segedin, B.P. (1987)
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Segedin, B.P.; Beever, R.E.; Johnston, P.R.; Buchanan, P.K. (1991)
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Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
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Shaw, E. (1990)
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Stevenson, G. (1958)
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Stevenson, G. (1962)
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Stevenson, G. (1981)
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Stevenson, G. (1982)
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Suzuki, A.; Fukiharu, T. et al. (2003)
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Taylor, G.M. (1970)
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Taylor, G.M. (1981)
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Walbert, K.; Ramsfield, T.D.; Ridgway, H.J.; Jones, E.E. (2010)
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Walbert, K.; Ramsfield, T.D.; Ridgway, H.J.; Jones, E.E. (2010)
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Wang, Y.; Sinclair, L.; Hall, I.R.; Cole, A.L.J. (1995)

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Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. 1783
New Zealand
Auckland
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Buller
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New Zealand
Chatham Islands
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Coromandel
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Dunedin
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Fiordland
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Marlborough
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Mid Canterbury
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Nelson
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North Canterbury
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Northland
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Otago Lakes
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Southland
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Taupo
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Wairarapa
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Wellington
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United States
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