Amanita parcivolvata - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita parcivolvata
name status nomen acceptum
author (Peck) E.-J. Gilbert
english name "Ringless False Fly Agaric"
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  • Amanita parcivolvata, Oconee Co., South Carolina, U.S.A.Amanita parcivolvata, Oconee Co., South Carolina, U.S.A.

    1. Amanita parcivolvata, Oconee County, South Carolina, U.S.A.


  • 2. Amanita parcivolvata

  • Amanita parcivolvata - North Carolina?, U.S.A., by H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904Amanita parcivolvata - North Carolina?, U.S.A., by H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904

    3. Amanita parcivolvata, by H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904.

  • Amanita parcivolvata - H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904Amanita parcivolvata - H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904

    4. Amanita parcivolvata, North Carolina?, U.S.A., by H. C. Beardslee ca. 1904.

  • intro Amanita parcivolvata is a very common species of the southeastern U.S.A., occurring at least as far north as the Atlantic coastal plain in northeastern New Jersey.
    cap Its 30 - 70 mm wide cap is scarlet and has a strongly striate margin.  The volva is distributed over the cap as powdery, yellow to pale yellow warts.
    gills The free gills are yellow in mass and white in side view.  The short gills are truncate.
    stem The stipe is 20 - 43 × 10 - 13 mm, has no annulus and is covered with yellow, powdery remains of the volva.  There is a 20 - 15 × 15 - 20 mm bulb at the stipe base.
    odor/taste Neither an odor nor a taste is recorded for this species.
    spores The spores measure (8.4-) 9.1 - 11.5 (-12.6) × (5.6-) 6.3 - 7.9 (-8.0) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate and inamyloid.  Clamps are rare at bases of basidia.
    discussion The species is associated primarily with oaks and pines.

    It bears some similarities to bright-colored, ringless species of Amanita sect. Amanita such as A. xanthocephala (Berk.) D. A. Reid & Hilton and A. aurantiovelata Schalkwijk & G. M. Jansen.—R. E. Tulloss
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