taxonID	type	description	language	source
2952BED18C2554A4BC10394D36E002BC.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized basidiomata, grayish brown to brown pileal surface having rimose and non-appendiculate pileal margins, verrucose, gray to dark bluish or brown veil remnants, dry and split stipe surface at the base forming scales, globose to subglobose, smooth, amyloid basidiospores.	en	Jabeen, Sana, Kiran, Munazza, Khan, Junaid, Ahmad, Ishtiaq, Ahmad, Habib, Sher, Hassan, Khalid, Abdul Nasir (2019): Amanita ahmadii, a new species of Amanita subgenus Amanitina section Validae from Pakistan. MycoKeys 56: 81-99, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819
2952BED18C2554A4BC10394D36E002BC.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet ahmadii refers to Sultan Ahmad, the pioneer Pakistani mycologist.	en	Jabeen, Sana, Kiran, Munazza, Khan, Junaid, Ahmad, Ishtiaq, Ahmad, Habib, Sher, Hassan, Khalid, Abdul Nasir (2019): Amanita ahmadii, a new species of Amanita subgenus Amanitina section Validae from Pakistan. MycoKeys 56: 81-99, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819
2952BED18C2554A4BC10394D36E002BC.taxon	description	Description. Pileus 4 - 7 cm in diameter, convex to flat at maturity; cuticle gray (2.5 BG 4 / 2) to grayish brown (10 YR 3 / 2) or brown (2.5 Y 4 / 4) with time; surface dry; universal veil remnants on pileus verrucose, aligned in one direction, scattered, gray (2.5 Y 4 / 2) to dark brown (2.5 Y 2 / 2); margins non-appendiculate, incurved when young, highly rimose by maturity. Lamellae off-white (2.5 BG 4 / 2) to cream (5 Y 9 / 4) becoming brownish when dry, adnexed, subdistant to close; edges entire. Lamellulae small (1 / 3 of the lamellae), attenuate, truncate. Stipe 6.7 - 9 x 0.6 - 1.5 cm, apex slightly wider and white, with up to 1.5 cm wide bulbous base, central, cylindrical; surface with grayish brown (5 GY 5 / 2) striations above the annulus, splitting towards the base forming scales on white (2.5 BG 4 / 2) to cream (5 Y 9 / 4) context. Annulus superior, membranous, skirt-like, with longitudinal striations on the upper surface, gray (2.5 Y 4 / 2) with a darker lower part. Universal veil absent. Ordorless and not changing color upon bruising. Basidiospores [60 / 3 / 3] (6.5) 7 - 8.5 (9.5) x (6) 6.5 - 7.5 (8) µm, Q = (1) 1.03 - 1.22 (1.33), avg Q = 1.10, globose to broadly ellipsoid, amyloid in Melzer's reagent. Basidia (32) 34.5 - 59 (67) x 7 - 8 µm, clavate, frequently 4 sterigmate, 2 sterigmata also observed, thin-walled, hyaline in 5 % KOH. Subhymenium pseudoparenchymatous, cells isodiameteric, intermixed and densely packed. Veil remnants made up of hyphae with terminal subglobose to elongated cells (42.5) 49.5 - 54 (57) x (13) 13 - 16 (19) µm on a branched filament 3 - 4 µm wide; septa frequent; clamp connections absent. Pileipellis filamentous, 4 - 5 µm in diameter, branched, septate; clamp connections absent, light brown with some hyaline tissue in 5 % KOH. Universal veil remnants of globose to subglobose cells (6.8) 8 - 12.2 (12.7) x (4.4) 7.5 - 10.5 (11) µm with filaments (0.7) 0.9 - 2.6 (3.5) µm in diameter. Hyphae from stipe 3 - 24 µm wide, filamentous, branched, hyaline in 5 % KOH, septate; clamp connections absent in all tissues.	en	Jabeen, Sana, Kiran, Munazza, Khan, Junaid, Ahmad, Ishtiaq, Ahmad, Habib, Sher, Hassan, Khalid, Abdul Nasir (2019): Amanita ahmadii, a new species of Amanita subgenus Amanitina section Validae from Pakistan. MycoKeys 56: 81-99, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819
2952BED18C2554A4BC10394D36E002BC.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined. Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Malakand division, Dir Upper district, Kumrat, 2232 m a. s. l., on soil under conifers, 2 Sept. 2015, Abdul Nasir Khalid FS 82 (LAH 35241; GenBank ITS: KY 996755; LSU: MK 166021); Swat district, Mashkun, 2500 m a. s. l., on soil under Cedrus deodara, 4 Aug. 2013, Ishtiaq Ahmad IS 213 P 65 (LAH 35242; GenBank ITS: MF 116158); Gabin Jabba valley, 2450 m a. s. l., on soil under Picea smithiana, 30 Aug. 2015, Junaid Khan GJ- 1508 (SWAT 0001351; GenBank ITS: MF 070490).	en	Jabeen, Sana, Kiran, Munazza, Khan, Junaid, Ahmad, Ishtiaq, Ahmad, Habib, Sher, Hassan, Khalid, Abdul Nasir (2019): Amanita ahmadii, a new species of Amanita subgenus Amanitina section Validae from Pakistan. MycoKeys 56: 81-99, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.56.31819
