Amanita rubroflava - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita rubroflava
name status nomen acceptum
author Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L. Yang
english name "Yunnan Red and Yellow slender Caesar"
intro This text is derived from the original description of Amanita rubroflava.  The fruiting bodies of Amanita rubroflava are medium-sized to large.
cap The cap is 70 – 120 mm wide, convex to planar, raised over the stem (umbonate), red to orange-red in the center, gradually changing towards the margin to yellow or yellowish.  The cap’s margin is radially grooved for about 20% to 40% of the cap's radius and lacks material hanging from its edge.  The flesh is white, yellowish to brown.
gills The gills are free, crowded, and yellow.  The short gills are truncate and plentiful.
stem The stem is 150 – 220 × 7 – 30 mm, nearly cylindric or narrowing upwards; its surface is yellow and covered with yellow fibers in a snakeskin pattern.  The stem lacks a basal bulb.  The volva is saccate, 50 – 70 × 30–50 mm,and membranous and has white to dirty white inner and outer surfaces.  The ring is yellow to yellowish and is on the top part of stem.
odor/taste The odor and taste were not recorded for the present species.
spores The spores measure 8.0 – 10.0 × 6.5 – 8.5 µm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and inamyloid.  Clamps are common at bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita rubroflava corresponds to Amanita sp. 4 in Yang (2015).  This species is known to occur only in Yunnan, China.

In China, A. rubroflava can be confused with A. hemibapha (Berk. & Broome) Sacc.  However, A. hemibapha differs from A. rubroflava by its infrequently umbonate cap, narrower spores (Q = (1.36-) 1.43 - 1.67 (-1.68)) and its tropical distribution.—Yang-Yang Cui and Rachel Warner
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