Amanita sp-T23 - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita sp-T23
name status cryptonomen temporarium
author Tulloss
intro Amanita sp-T23 is a rarely encountered species with a yellowish beige cap, a notably floccose stem, and predominantly broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid spores.
cap The cap is about 52 mm wide, pale yellowish beige, and has a very slight umbo.  The cap's flesh is white (except for pale tan just below pileipellis) and 4 mm thick above the stem.
gills The gills are free to narrowly adnate, close to subcrowded, pale orangish cream in mass, off-white in side view, and about 4 mm broad.  The short gills are truncate.
stem The stem is about 111 × 8.5 mm, and off-white below a coating of flocculence; the dense flocculence is concolorous with the cap.  The stem has no annulus.  The volval remnants at the stem's base are submembranous white patches.
odor/taste The odor is very faint or absent.  No taste is reported for this species.
spores The spores of this species measure (9.4-) 10.1 - 11.9 (-15.7) × 7.7 - 9.1 (-11.2) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid (infrequently subglobose) and inamyloid.  Clamps are not to be found at bases of basidia.
discussion This species is known from mixed forest in the southeastern U.S.—R. E. Tulloss
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