Amanita luteoflava - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita luteoflava
name status nomen acceptum
author Beeli
english name "African Gold Slender Caesar"
intro The following description is based on Beeli (1935).
cap The cap of Amanita luteoflava is 30 - 40 mm wide,  expanded-convex,  glabrous, orangish-yellow, with the center's color more saturated, with a depressed center and a striate margin.  The flesh is thin, white, and firm.  The volva is absent.
gills The gills are free, white, pointed at both ends, and about 3 mm broad.
stem Its stem is 70 - 80 × 3 - 5 mm, cylindric, usually narrow, hollow, fibrillose, white.  The ring is membranous, thin, fragile, superior, skirt-like, and white.  The volva is membranous, ample, whitish.  The volva is saccate (Gilbert 1941).  The flesh is white and firm.
odor/taste The taste is bitter.
spores The spores measure 7 - 8 µm in diameter and are globose.  Gilbert's (1940) spore drawings measure 10.6 - 13.6 × 9.7 - 12.9 µm and are globose to subglobose and inamyloid.
discussion The present species was originally described from the Democratic Republic of Congo where it occurs singly in dry forest.

A watercolor by Madame Goossens exists, but neither Beeli nor Gilbert reproduced it.

It seems plausible that this species could be placed in stirps Hemibapha but knowledge of it is insufficient to be certain at the present time.  To my knowledge no one has treated this species since Gilbert and all knowledge is based on the single specimen of the type collection.—R. E. Tulloss
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