| Amanita
pallidocarnea (Höhn.) Boedijn "Pale Flesh-colored Ringless Amanita"
Technical description not yet available. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Fruiting bodies of Amanita pallidocarnea are small to medium-sized. The cap is 40 - 80 mm wide, convex to applanate, slightly umbonate at disc, dark grey to dark brown over disc, becoming grey, greyish brown to yellowish towards the margin, glabrous or covered with a few dirty white, felty to membranous volval remnants; the margin is tuberculate-striate (30% to 50% of the radius) and non-appendiculate; the context is white to pinkish. The gills are free, rose to flesh-colored; and the short gills are truncate. The exannulate stem is 60 - 130 x 5 - 15 mm, subcylindric or slightly attenuate upwards, with its upper half pink and covered with pink fibrillose squamules and its lower half paler. The stipe lacks a basal. The volva on the stipe base is saccate and measures 2 0- 40 x 15 - 25 mm; both its outer and inner surfaces are white. Spores measure (8.5-) 9.0 - 12.0 (-14.5) x 8.0 - 11.0 (-14.0) µm and are globose to subglobose and inamyloid. Clamps are absent from the bases of basidia. Amanita pallidocarnea was originally described from Indonesia. It is also found in tropical China. -- Zhu L. Yang Photo courtesy of Prof. X. L. Wu (Hainan Province, China) Return to Section Vaginatae page. Last changed 7 June 2004. |
