Amanita melleiceps - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita melleiceps
name status nomen acceptum
author Hongo
english name "Honey-Capped Amanita"
intro Note: Editor needs copy of the protolog.  (t.b.d.)
cap Fruiting bodies of A. melleiceps are small to very small.  Its cap is 20 – 50 (-70) mm wide, at first nearly hemispherical, then convex to plano-convex.  It is yellow to ochraceous yellow, becoming darker in the center and paler towards the margin.  The cap's margin is marked by tuberculate striations (extending inward for 20% to 40% of the cap's radius) and is non-appendiculate.  The volval remnants on the cap are whitish to yellowish, patch-like, felty to irregularly formed or decorated with small bumps.  The cap's flesh is white to cream-colored.
gills The gills of this species are free, crowded, and white.  The short gills are squarely cut-off or nearly so.
stem The ringless stem is (20-) 30 - 50 (-70) × 3 - 6 (-10) mm, cylindric or slightly tapering upward, white to cream-colored, and undecorated.  The stem's flesh is white, and the basal bulb is subglobose to ovoid 5 - 10 mm wide.  The volval remnants are white to yellowish floccose patches or warts near the top of the bulb; and, occasionally, these remnants take the form of a short limb.
odor/taste The odor is indistinct.
spores Spores measure (7.5-) 8.5 - 10.5 (-11.5) × (5.5-) 6.0 - 7.5 (-8.0) µm and are ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, and inamyloid.  Clamps are not present at the bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita melleiceps was originally described from Japan.  It is common in southern parts of China, often growing under Pinus massoniana and in mixed forests.—Zhu-L. Yang
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