Amanita curtipes, F. PSEUDOVALENS AND

Arraiano-Castilho, Ricardo, Silva, Ana Cristina, Vila-Viçosa, Carlos, Castro, Mário Rui, Morgado, Luís Neves & Oliveira, Paulo, 2022, The Amidella clade in Europe (Basidiomycota: Amanitaceae): clarification of the contentious Amanita valens (E. - J. Gilbert) Bertault and the importance of taxon-specific PCR primers for identification, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (6), pp. 139-157 : 146

COMPARISON WITH AMANITA CURTIPES F. PSEUDOVALENS AND

AMANITA PONDEROSA

When comparing the descriptions of all European taxa of series Amidella , based on Neville & Poumarat (2004), as shown in Table 6 , the Portuguese specimens of Amanita pseudovalens comb. nov., stat. nov. did not conform with the description for the genetically indistinct A. curtipes f. pseudovalens ( Neville & Poumarat 2004) , diverging in their soil and vegetation affinities and in the microscopy. Therefore, we understand them as representing a separate taxon, however at infraspecific level.

Moreover, Table 6 shows that the tartessiana variety resembles A. ponderosa in almost every aspect – the obvious difference being the so far unknown occurrence of large and heavy specimens in the former – being, by comparison, much less similar to the conspecific A. pseudovalens comb. nov., stat. nov. collected in France.