Amanita virgineoides

Amanita virgineoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Amanitaceae
Genus:	Amanita
Species:	A. virgineoides
Binomial name
Amanita virgineoides Bas

Amanita virgineoides Mycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Cap is umbonate
	Hymenium is free
	Stipe has a volva
	Spore print is white
	Ecology is mycorrhizal
	Edibility is unknown but not recommended

Amanita virgineoides, known as the false virgin's lepidella, is a species of fungus in the genus Amanita.

Description

The basidiocarps are medium-sized to large. The cap is 7–15 centimetres (3–6 inches) wide, convex to applanate, sometimes concave, and white, covered with white, conical to pyramid volval remnants 1–3 millimetres (1⁄16–1⁄8 in) high and wide. The cap margin is smooth and appendiculate, and the context is white and unchanging.

The gills are free to subfree and white to cream; the short gills are attenuate.

The stipe is 10–20 cm (4–8 in) × 1.5–3 cm (1⁄2–1 in), subcylindric or slightly attenuate upwards, white, covered with white floccose squamules; the context is white; the stipe's basal bulb is 3–4 cm (1–1+1⁄2 in) wide, ventricose, ovoid to subglobose, with its upper part covered with white, verrucose to granular volval remnants. The annulus is white; its upper surface bears fine, radial striations; and its lower surface, verrucose to conical warts. The annulus is often broken during expansion of the cap.

The spores measure 8–10 × 6–7.5 μm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are common at bases of basidia.

See also

• List of Amanita species

References

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