APPENDIX 6 in 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

APPENDIX 6. — Differences between sites for basidiospore length (L), width (l) and L/l ratio (Q). ***, P <0.001; *, P <0.05; ns, P ≥ 0.05.
MeasurementLlQAverages ± SE, µm12.192 ± 0.085 (A)7.156 ± 0.040 (A)1.709 ± 0.012 (A)11.396 ± 0.086 (B)6.750 ± 0.043 (B)1.694 ± 0.013 (B)Mean difference (A minus B) ± SE0.796 ± 0.121, t340 = 6.573***0.406 ± 0.059, t340 = 6.904***0.015 ± 0.018, t340 = 0.839nsEffect size (Cohen’s d)0.7120.7470.091Shapiro-Wilk normality testW = 0.978* (A)W = 0.986ns (A)W = 0.987ns (A)W = 0.994ns (B)W = 0.995ns (B)W = 0.971*** (B)Levene’s test (variance homogeneity)F1 = 2.313nsF1 = 2.894nsF1 = 1.029nsNested ANOVA, between sitesF1132 = 58.985***F1132 = 64.524***F1132 = 0.937nsNested ANOVA, within sitesF8332 = 16.527***F8332 = 16.028***F8332 = 15.068***