Amanita pallidozonata - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita pallidozonata
name status nomen acceptum
author Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L.Yang
intro This text is derived from the original description of Amanita pallidozonata.  The fruiting bodies of Amanita pallidozonata are small to medium-sized.
cap The cap is 35 – 70 mm wide, plano-convex to planar, gray-brown to brown, forming a distinctly pale colored ring-like zone at the proximal end of the marginal grooves.  The cap’s margin has radial grooves covering 30% - 50% of the cap's radius.  There is no material hanging from the edge.  The fresh is white.
gills The gills are free, crowded, and white, with white to cream edges.  The short gills are truncate and plentiful.
stem The stem is 70 – 160 × 6 – 10 mm, nearly cylindrical or narrowing upwards, white to brownish, covered with minute, concolorous fibrils.  The stem lacks a basal bulb.  At the stem's base, the volva is saccate, 15 – 30 × 7 – 15 mm, membranous, the outer surface is white with brown tinge and the inner surface is white to dirty white.
odor/taste The odor and taste were not recorded for the present species.
spores The spores measure 10.0 – 12.0 × 9.0 – 11.0 µm and are globose, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and inamyloid.  There are no clamps at the bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita pallidozonata is described from Yunnan Province, China.  This species occurs in pine or mixed forests with Fagaceae and Pinaceae.

Amanita zonata Yang-Yang Cui et al. also has a ring-like zone at the proximal end of the marginal striations and could be confused with A. pallidozonata.  However, A. zonata has relatively smaller spores (Q = 1.00–1.11 (–1.14)) and is found in tropical forests with Fagaceae.—Yang-Yang Cui and Rachel Warner
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