Amanita pinophila - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita pinophila
name status nomen acceptum
author Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L. Yang
intro This text is derived from the original description of Amanita pinophila.  The fruiting bodies of Amanita pinophila are small to medium-sized.
cap The cap is 35 – 65 mm wide, plano-convex to planar, white, brownish to brown.  The volva is present as fluffy, white, brownish to brown remnants.  The cap’s margin is radially grooved covering 10% - 20% of the cap's radius and is non- or slightly appendiculate.  The flesh is white.
gills The gills are free, crowded, and white, but become grayish, gray-brown, brownish to brown when dried.  The short gills are mostly truncate and plentiful.
stem The stem is 45 – 70 × 4 – 15 mm, nearly cylindrical or narrowing upwards, white, brownish to brown, and is covered with fluffy to fibrous, concolorous squamules.  The stem lacks a basal bulb.  At the stem's base, the volva is saccate, 20 – 30 × 20 – 40 mm, membranous, its outer surface is white, brownish to brown, and its inner surface is brownish to brown.  The ring hangs from a region 20 – 40 mm below the stem's top and is fluffy, white and fragile.
odor/taste The odor and taste were not recorded for the present species.
spores The spores measure 10.0 – 12.0 × 5.5 – 7.0 µm and are elongate and amyloid.  There are no clamps at the bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita pinophila is described from Yunnan Province, China.  It is putatively associated with pine trees (e.g. Pinus yunnanensis).—Yang-Yang Cui and Rachel Warner
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