Amanita sublutea - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita sublutea
name status nomen acceptum
author (Cleland) E.-J. Gilbert
english name "Pale Yellow Limbed-Lepidella"
intro This description is based on that of Bas (1969).
cap The cap of Amanita sublutea is 30 - 45 mm wide, convex to plano-convex with a slightly depressed center, pale buff, viscid when moist, slightly appendiculate, with a nonsulcate margin.  The cap is covered with vague and very thin, felted, concolorous, inconspicuous, crust-like remnants of volva over the center.
gills The gills are subdistant, narrowly adnate, rather broad, and white.  The short gills are truncate to obliquely truncate and rather scarce.
stem

The stem is 35 - 45 × 6 - 10 mm, equal, exannulate, with inconspicuous, very narrow, pale, submembranous volval limb on the margin of the bulb.

spores The spores measure (11-) 11.5 - 13 (-13.5) × 6.5 - 7.5 (-8) µm and are amyloid and elongate (rarely cylindrical, sometimes slightly obovoid).  Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.
discussion Amanita sublutea was originally described from the state of South Australia.   No associated plants were listed by Cleland.

Bas placed A. sublutea in his stirps Preissii (see A. preissii).  For purposes of history and other comparisons, the reader may also wish to check A. kammala Grgur.—R. E. Tulloss
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