Technical Description. (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following is based on the description by Kulkarni (1992).

The cap of Amanita konkanensis is 30 - 63 mm wide, chalky white, plano-convex becoming plane, with an appendiculate and nonstriate margin, extending beyond the end of the gills. The appendiculate material is chalky white and membranous. The volva is membranous, pale hazel, and in random patches. The flesh is 10 - 15 mm thick ]Note: position of measurement not specified], white, and unchanging when bruised.

The gills are free, crowded, unequal, 1.5 - 3.5 mm broad, pointed on the end near the stem, white with a cream tinge. Short gills are present in at least four series.

The stem is 45 - 70 × 8 - 20 mm, narrowing upward, solid, white, smooth towards the top, floccose towards the base below the ring, with a subnapiform bulb. The ring is in the upper part of the stem, white, faintly striate, pruinose, submembranous but evanescent. The volva is present as a ring of white powdery material on top of the bulb. The flesh is fleshy in stem and spongy in the bulb.

The spores measure 6 - 9 × 4.5 - 6 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.

Originally described from Maharashtra state, India, and according to the original description, it is known from a single specimen. This species occurs solitarily in deciduous forests.

The authors noted this species could be placed in Amanita subsection Solitaria Bas. On the other hand, we cannot agree with their placement of this species in stirps Silvicola. According to their description and illustrations, in conflict with their discussion, the bulb is not marginate, the fruiting body is too small, and the spores are too small. Perhaps the closest species described by Bas (1969) is Amanita cetunculus Corner & Bas (stirps Strobiliformis), however, Bas emphasizes the hollow stem of this species which is not present in Amanita konkanensis. For these reasons, we hesitate to assign A. konkanensis to one of Bas' stirpes. 
-- R. E. Tulloss and L. Possiel

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