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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "African False Lepiota Lepidella"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This description is based on that of Bas (1969). The cap of Amanita amanitoides is about 70 mm wide, plano-convex with slight umbo, dingy white with yellowish stains at the center, completely floccose-pulverulent, with a nonsulcate margin. The gills are rather crowded, free, rather broad, and pale yellowish gray. The short gills are irregularly attenuate. The stem is 105 x 8 mm, slightly attenuate upward, solid, dingy white with yellowish stains, without remnants of the volva at the base. The spores measure (8.5-) 9 - 11 (-12) x 4.5 - 6 µm and are amyloid and elongate to cylindrical. Clamps are absent at the bases of basidia. The present species was originally described from Republic of Congo and placed in the genus Lepiota. The precise habitat is unknown. Bas placed A. amanitoides in his stirps Longipes (see A. longipes Bas ex Tulloss & Dav. T. Jenkins). -- R. E. Tulloss Drawing: Dr. C. Bas (1969) (reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands)
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