| Amanita mira
Corner & Bas "Gold Coin Amanita"
Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Much of this information is taken from Corner and Bas (1962). The cap of A. mira is 40 - 90 mm wide, campanulate to plano with a depressed center, subviscid, with a finely tuberculate-striate margin. The cap is orange-red to pale clear orange in the center, yellow orange, ochre-yellow, or bright yellow toward pale margin. The cap is sprinkled with small, firm, yellowish to whitish, pyramidal warts. The gills are free, crowded, thin, and white. The stem is 50 - 110 x 5 - 9 mm, equal or tapering upward, solid, becoming hollow, white or slightly grayish, mostly exannulate, with 2 - 3 more or less complete rings of small, subfloccose, yellow warts at the base (as on the cap). According to Corner & Bas (1962), the spores measure 6.4 - 7.9 x 6.2 - 7.7 µm when dried (7.0 - 8.5 x 6.5 - 7.5 µm, fresh) and are globose to subglobose (rarely broadly ellipsoid) and inamyloid. Clamps are not found at bases of basidia. Corner records that monkeys ate this species "without discomfort." Described from forest in Singapore. It is also reported from China (Yunnan Prov.), and Malaya. -- R. E. Tulloss Watercolors: Prof. E. J. H. Corner (Singapore, illustration from original description (Corner and Bas, 1962) reproduced by courtesy of Persoonia, Leiden, the Netherlands.) Return to Section Amanita page. Last changed 16 August
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