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Saturday, 21 December 2002 |
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Page 1 of 4 Boletus manicus Heim nonda gegwants nyimbil
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Revue de Mycologie 28(3-4):280-281, 1963.
Boletus manicus Heim was first collected and described by the French mycologist Roger Heim [1900-1979] from the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands District of the Territory of New Guinea (now the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea) (Heim 1963a; 1965). In August to September 1963, Heim visited the Wahgi Valley for three weeks with American ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson (Heim 1963a; 1963b; 1965; 1966; 1972; 1973; 1978; Heim & Wasson 1964; 1965). Heim and Wasson visited the Wahgi Valley to investigate reports by Australian anthropologist Marie Reay that the Kuma people of the Nangamp cultural group used apparently hallucinogenic fungi (Reay 1959; 1960).
FAMILY:
Boletaceae; Order: Agaricales; Class: Basidiomycetes.
SYNONYM:
Tubiporus manicus (Heim 1972:171; Rätsch 1998).
VERNACULAR NAMES:
[Kuma] nonda gegwants ngimbigl (Heim 1972:171; Heim & Wasson 1964; 1965) or nonda gegwants nyimbil (Reay 1977).
CHOROLOGY:
Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
HABITAT:
Originally found growing around the village of Kondambi in the Wahgi Valley.
MYCOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION:
PILEUS 13-16 cm in diameter, hemispheric, expanded, typically thick, usually creamy white but ranges through biscuit colour to walnut with brownish-red spots, downy-velvet skin with mainly involuted borders and the flesh beneath the cuticle is firm with a leafy green appearance tinged with lemon and cream, colouration somewhat more intense inside the cap being a pale bluish lemon but is a deeper yellow in young mushrooms, shallow hymenium (+ 5 mm) which is not decurrent, brick-red at first and later streaked with moss-green. STIPE cylindrical, pestle-shaped, thick but not stubby, thinner towards the top and becoming thicker near the base which has a markedly root like appearance, lacking any red tinge but has green markings at the base, faintly pink at the top, upper section has polygonal reddish-pink network. FLESH has a quite strong smell and bitter taste. SPORES 9-10.8 X 4-4.6µ (Heim 1972:172).
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