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Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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Massee
Massee
Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.
1899
1898
340
misapplication
ICN
Amanita mappa sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Amanita mappa (Batsch) Bertill. 1866
species
Amanita mappa

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Amanitaceae
Amanita
mappa

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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]

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.
North Island. Europe, North America.
On the ground.
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.

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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

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taxonomic status
No material; ?= Amanita phalloides

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1cb1d39f-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
28 March 2001
30 October 2023
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