Pileus 6-10 cm, fleshy, initially hemispherical, then convex to completely flat, whitish to creamy white, wrapped in a general grainy-greasy veil, the ochraceous orange colour that covers it entirely when young, but subsequently thins out in patches, leaving the underlying parts uncovered and clear. Margin smooth, not striated, strongly appended by triangular flap like remnants of the partial veil, then completely naked at maturity. Lamellae adnate to adnexed, low and only slightly ventricose, crowded, white to whitish pink, up to 10 mm broad with short lamellulae. Stipe 7-16 × 0.8-1.6 cm, cylindrical, solid, typically sinuous in the median part with rounded base, sub-clavate. Smooth above the ring, below entirely covered by ochre-orange coloured, large, fibrillose-hairy scales. Stipe is concolourous with the pileus surface. Flesh white, 1 cm thick, with strong unpleasant odour. Basidiospores 5.6-8.0 × 5.0-7.8 µm, globose to sub-globose, few broadly ellipsoidal, amyloid, smooth. Basidia 40-56 × 9-11 µm, tetrasporic cylindrical-clavate. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia absent.
Specimens examined
India, Maharashtra, Kolhapur, Rajarshee Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj College of Agriculture (16°41ʹ05ʺN-74°15ʹ40ʺE), on ground, alone, scattered, 07.07.2022, Bornak, S. I. (Y22V4C1)
Remarks
A. manicata can be easily recognized by its yellowish brown to pale tawny brown cap covering with floccoso-verrucose squamules; margin appendiculates with large floccose hanging fragments; stipe cylindrical which covered by tawny brown floccoso-squamose which becomes more intense and thicker as upwards; lamellae with cream to whitish or pinkish tint; basidiospores subglobose, amyloid (Liu, et al., 2022) This species has been described from Karnataka, India (Kantharaja and Krishnappa, 2022). This is the first report from Maharashtra state.
References:
Liu, Y. J., Qi, Z. X., Li, Y., Yue, L., Zhao, G. P., Gui, X. Y., Dong, P., Wang, Y., Zhang, B. and Li, X. (2023). A new species and new records of Hymenopellis and Xerula (Agaricales, Physalacriaceae) from China. PeerJ, 11, e16681. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16681 Kantharaja, R. and Krishnappa, M. (2022). Amanitaceous fungi of central Western Ghats: taxonomy, phylogeny, and six new reports to Indian mycobiota. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 14(4): 20890–20902. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.7801.14.4.20890-20902
