Amanita chrysoleuca - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita chrysoleuca
name status nomen acceptum
author Pegler
english name "Pirate Gold Amanita"
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The description is based on the original description (1983).

cap The cap of Amanita chrysoleuca is apricot yellow at the center, and lemon chrome outside the center.  The color continues to fade toward the margin. The cap is also convex to almost planar, slightly depressed in the center, and dry.  It has a deeply sulcate-striate margin.  The cap is covered with yellowish-ochraceous, powdery volval remnants.  The cap's flesh is white and unchanging.
gills The gills are free to adnate, white to cream, thin, narrow, up to 2 mm wide, moderately crowded.  The short gills are of at least two lengths.
stem The stem is 35 - 50 × 4 - 5 mm, cylindric with a bulbous base, white, finely pruinose, exannulate.  The stem is stuffed.  The stem's flesh is white and unchanging.  The volva is made up of loose, yellow, floccose squamules deposited in a rim at the upper edge of the bulb.
spores The spores measure 7 - 9.5 × 4.5 - 6 µm and are ellipsoid and are inamyloid.  Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.
discussion This species was described originally from from the island of Martinique where it was found in semi-deciduous forests at 2000 m elev. and in "transitional xero-mesophytic forest" at 200 m elev.

Material somewhat similar to the present species has been collected in Florida (USA) and Panama (Dr. Clark L. Ovrebo) and reported from St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands by Miller, Lodge, and Baroni (2000).

The bright colors and narrow spores excepted, this species is similar to those small taxa in section Amanita in which the powdery volva is slow to separate from the skin of the cap.  For discussion of this group, see Amanita farinosa Schwein.—R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel
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