When: 2006-12-19
Collection location: Los Trancos Preserve, Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Douglas Smith (douglas)
No herbarium specimen

Species Lists:
Species in Los Trancos Preserve (14)

Notes: These are kinda neat. I haven’t seen this species up there before, but I also found one really old one near by, so I am pretty sure about the species of these buttons. But also I had never seen buttons of this species before, and there are some neat features. The “egg” doesn’t seem to have any complete universal veil, that is only seen as the crumblies on the forming caps. The left over “egg” tissue will eventually become scally rings on the mature stipe. In the second photo, the forming partial veil tissue is bright yellow, which also points to the species.

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Proposed Name		User		Community Vote
Amanita franchetii sensu H.D. Thiers		douglas		(no votes)

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Created: 2006-12-24 11:26:46 By: Darvin DeShazer (darv) Summary: francheti vs franchetii vs franchetti The specific epithet is often misspelled as francheti because of Bull. Soc. bot. Fr.: 91 (1881). In 1986 Jenkins kept the error in Amanita of North America. Arora also has the error in All That the Rain Promises and More… The correct name according to the botanical code should have two i’s, not two t’s.

Observation created: Sun Dec 24 09:20:20 -0800 2006
Last modified: Tue Dec 26 16:57:14 -0800 2006
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