| Amanita echinulata Beeli "Dark Spiny Amanita" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935) and Gilbert (1941). The cap of Amanita echinulata is 50 - 70 mm wide, plano-convex, with a nonstriate margin. The cap is dark brown with dark pyramidal warts. The flesh is firm and white. The gills are free, 6 mm broad, white, and pointed at both ends. Its stem is 90 × 5 - 9 mm, cylindric, narrow, undecorated, and the same color as the cap. The ring is superior, membranous, thin, skirt-like, dark brownish-gray. The volva is easily lost from the stem base. The flesh is firm and white. The taste is bitter. The spores measure 5.5
- 6.5 × 4.5 - 5.5 µm (Bas 1969)
and are amyloid. Measurements of the type of Gilbert (1940)
are in the following range: The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo, where it was collected in dry forest. It is solitary or gregarious. Its not known to what extent the original description of Amanita echinulata was influenced by specimens now considered to be not contaxic with the type. For comparison, see Amanita fuliginosa Beeli. -- R. E. Tulloss Return to Section Validae page. Last changed 2 August 2005. |