Amanita kotohiraensis - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita kotohiraensis
name status nomen acceptum
author Nagas. & Mitani
english name "Kotohira Lepidella"
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  • Amanita kotohiraensis, China.Amanita kotohiraensis, China.

    1. Amanita kotohiraensis, China.

  • intro Fruiting bodies of Amanita kotohiraensis are small to medium-sized.
    cap The cap of Amanita kotohiraensis is (30-) 50 - 80 mm wide, convex, white, sometimes cream in the center; and it is covered with white, felty to patchy volval remnants; the margin is appendiculate; and the context is white.
    gills The gills are free and yellowish; the short gills are attenuate.
    stem The stipe is 60 - 130 × 5 - 15 mm, subcylindric or attenuate upwards, with a surface and context that are white.  The stipe's basal bulb is 15 - 40 mm wide and subglobose, with its upper part covered with white, verrucose, granular to subconic volval remnants.  The annulus is white and fugacious.
    odor/taste The smell of the present species is reported as disagreeable or unpleasant.  No taste has been reported.
    spores The spores of this species measure (7.0-) 7.5 - 9.5 (-11.0) × 5.0 - 6.5 (-7.0) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid.  Clamps are common at the bases of basidia.
    discussion Amanita kotohiraensis was originally described from Japan.  It is not uncommon in China.—Zhu L. Yang
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