Dog-legged Lepidella Amanita longipes Bas ex Tulloss & D. T. Jenkins    
Kingdom Fungi   >   Phylum Basidiomycota   >   Class Agaricomycetes   >   Order Agaricales   >   Family Amanitaceae   >   Genus Amanita   

Status:

Found solitary or groups, usually on sandy soil in oak–pine woods, occasionally in beech- hickory-oak.

Description:

Fruiting body: Densely floccose. Cap: Hemispheric to broadly convex, dry, covered with soft powdery veil fragments and powdery warts, sometimes with marginal veil fragments, flesh white to pale gray; less than 10 cm. Gills: Close with powdery edges. Stalk: Evanescent white veil seldom leaves ring, white, powdery / scurfy, slightly enlarged downward, usually flattened or dog-legged / curved (or both), occasionally red stains at base, volva swollen and slightly rooted. (J. Solem, pers. comm.)

There are 5 records in the project database.

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Dog-legged Lepidella (fruiting body) in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella (fruiting bodies removed from substrate) in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). These were in a beech-oak-hickory forest. Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella (cap) in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/22/2019). Verified by Jo Solem. Photo by Anne Looker. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella (mature fruiting body in oak-pine habitat) in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/22/2019). Verified by Jo Solem. Photo by Anne Looker. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella (young fruiting body with dog-leg) in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/22/2019). Verified by Jo Solem. Photo by Anne Looker. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Dog-legged Lepidella (gills and upper stalk) in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Spores collected from a Dog-legged Lepidella specimen in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). Ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline; measured 9.3-11.1 x 6.0-6.7 microns. Photo by Robert Solem. (MBP list)

Spores collected from a Dog-legged Lepidella specimen in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/22/2019). Ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline; measured 9.9-10.6 x 4.6-6.2 microns. Photo by Robert Solem. (MBP list)

Spores collected from a Dog-legged Lepidella specimen in Howard Co., Maryland (7/24/2019). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)


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