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Amanita chrysoleuca Pegler
"Pirate's Gold Amanita" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The description is based on the original description (1978). The cap of Amanita chrysoleuca is 25 - 35 mm wide, conico-convex to almost planar, slightly depressed in the center, apricot yellow at the center, lemon chrome outside the center and fading toward the margin, dry, with a deeply sulcate-striate margin. The cap is covered with yellowish-ochraceous, powdery volval remnants. The flesh is white and unchanging. Gills are free to adnate, white to cream, thin, narrow, up to 2 mm wide, moderately crowded. The short gills are of at least two lengths. Its stem is 35 - 50 × 4 - 5 mm, cylindric with a bulbous base, white, finely pruinose, exannulate. The stem is stuffed. The volva is made up of loose, yellow, floccose squamules deposited in a rim at the upper edge of the bulb. The flesh is white and unchanging. The spores measure 7 - 9.5 × 4.5 - 6 µm and are ellipsoid and are inamyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia. The material originally described is from the island of Martinique where it was found in semi-deciduous forests at 2000 m elev. and solitary in "transitional xero-mesophytic forest" at 200 m elev. Material somewhat similar to the present species has been collected in Florida (USA) and Panama (Dr. Clark L. Ovrebo). The bright colors and narrow spores excepted,
this species is similar to those small taxa in section Amanita
in which the powdery volva is slow to separate from the skin of the
cap. For discussion of this group, see Amanita
farinosa Schwein. Return to Section Amanita page. Last changed 28 May 2008. |