Technical Description. (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The cap of Amanita ochrophylloides is up to 150 mm wide, convex then plano-convex and finally slightly depressed toward the center, pale brown, with the margin of the cap conspicuously appendiculate with fragments of the volva in young specimens. The cap is covered with numerous warts (sometimes dark brown).

The gills are pale golden yellow and up to 13 mm broad.

The stem is up to 100 x 26 mm, white but discoloring is various shades of brown. The bulb is up to 45 mm. The ring is pronounced, off-white, and may disappear in mature specimens. The volva forms a short free limb at the top of the basal bulb. 

The smell is very faint mealy.

The spores measure 7.0 - 10.0 x 5.0 - 8.5 µm and are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are absent at base of basidia.

This species was originally described from the state of Victoria, Australia. A. ochrophylloides occurs in rocky, black soil amongst ferns under eucalyptus of peppermint group.

Amanita ochrophylloides belongs in Amanita subsection gymnopodae (see Amanita gymnopus Corner & Bas). -- R. E. Tulloss

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