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name Amanita pagetodes
name status nomen acceptum
author D. A. Reid
english name "Frosted Biscuit Lepidella"
intro

The description is based on Reid (1980).

cap

The cap of Amanita pagetodes is up to 70 mm wide, convex then plano-convex, whitish, appendiculate, with a smooth margin. The cap is entirely covered with thin, pulverulent or subfloccose, pallid to buff-colored volval remnants. The volva is easily removed, e.g. by rain. The flesh is white.

gills

The gills are whitish to cream.

stem

The stem is up to 90 × 15 mm, whitish, covered with whitish or buff-colored flocci, especially in the upper part of the bulb. The basal bulb is immarginate and 30 mm wide, whitish. The ring falls off the stem. The flesh is white.

spores

The spores measure 7.0 - 10.2 × 7.2 - 8.8 (10.0) µm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are present at bases of basidia.

discussion

This species was originally described from the state of Victoria, Australia. No ecological information was provided concerning the type. Reid states in another specimen that may be the same species was collected under eucalyptus.

For reasons of general macroscopic apearance, Reid suggests comparison to Amanita farinacea (Cooke & Massee) Cleland & Cheel. Amanita farinacea differs in the structure of its volva and its having narrower spores and was placed in Bas' stirps Grossa, a group comprising entirely of Australian taxa. Amanita pagetodes keys to Bas' stirps Chlorinosma. For information on other species in the stirps, see A. chlorinosma (Austin) Lloyd. Wood (1997) agrees upon placement of this species in stirps Chlorinosma.—R. E. Tulloss

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