Amanita lanigera - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita lanigera
name status nomen acceptum
author Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L. Yang
intro This text is derived from the original description of Amanita lanigera.  The fruiting bodies of Amanita lanigera are medium-sized.
cap The cap is 60 – 90 mm wide, plano-convex to planar, white with brownish tinge.  The volva is present as fluffy to powdery, white, brownish to brown remnants.  The cap’s margin is non- or slightly striate and has material hanging from its edge.  The flesh is white.
gills The gills are free, crowded, and white, but become grayish, gray-brown, brownish to brown when dried.  The short gills are truncate and plentiful.
stem The stem is 110 – 140 × 10 – 15 mm, nearly cylindrical or narrowing upwards, white with brown tinge, and is covered with fluffy, white, brownish to brown squamules. &nsbp;The stem lacks a basal bulb.  At the stem's base, the volva is saccate, 30 – 40 × 40 – 60 mm, membranous, it's outer surface is white to brownish, and it's inner surface is brownish to brown.  The ring hangs from a region 30 – 40 mm below the stem's top and is fluffy, white and fugacious.
odor/taste The odor and taste were not recorded for the present species.
spores The spores measure 10.0 – 12.0 × 7.0 – 8.5 µm and are mostly ellipsoid, sometimes elongate and amyloid.  There are no clamps at the bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita lanigera is described from Yunnan Province, China.  It occurs in pine or mixed forests with Fagaceae and Pinaceae.—Yang-Yang Cui and Rachel Warner
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