Amanita roseophylla

The following description is based on Jenkins (1985).

The cap of A. roseophylla is 20 - 40 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, golden-blonde in the center, lightly to near putty on margin, glabrous, with a slightly striate, slightly incurved margin. The volval remnants are thin, very sparse, pale grayish, relatively delicate, and usually disappearing with age. The cap skin is easily separable from flesh. The flesh is white, 1 - 3 mm thick over stem, unusually thickened at cap margin.

The gills are pinkish-white, moderately close, narrow, remote from stem, with floccose edges. The short gills are moderately abundant and truncate.

The stem is up to 50 × 7 - 8 mm, cylindric, mostly smooth, white to pale cream, stuffed to hollow. Volval remnants often absent, but if present they are slightly floccose, pale grayish patches. The ring is whitish, narrow, striate above, floccose below, delicate, disappearing with age. The basal bulb is subabrupt, egg-shaped, with narrow end pointing down, up to 20 × 17 mm. The flesh is white.

The mushroom has no odor or taste.

The spores measure 10.2 - 11.7 × 7.0 - 7.8 µm and are ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are present at bases of basidia.

Originally described from Alabama, USA where it occurred under loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and mixed hardwoods.  It is still only known from the type locality in Talladega.

The pink gills are unusual in section Amanita, but see several species with and without rings in sect. Vaginatae (e.g., A. ristichii Tulloss), A. hygroscopia Coker (sect. Phalloideae), and A. carneiphylla O.K. Mill (sect. Lepidella).—R. E. Tulloss