Technical Description. (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Based on the original description of Murrill (1941) and type study by David T. Jenkins (1979).

The cap of Amanita subcitriniceps is approximately 40 mm wide, convex to plano-concave, slightly viscid when wet, smooth, uniformly pale citrinous, with a nonstriate margin. The flesh is thin, white, unchanging.

The gills are adnate with a slight decurrent tooth, narrow, very close, white with a finley fimbriate edge.

The stem is 80 × 6 - 10 mm, slightly narrowing upward, solid, unchanging, white, floccose above and below ring. The bulb 20 × 13 mm, only slightly broader than stem, white. The volva is friable and disappearing at an early age. The ring is small, white, collapsing, persistent, fixed about 20 mm from the top of the stem.

Odorless.

The spores measure 5.5 - 6.2 × 7.8 - 8.6 (9.4) µm and are ellipsoid and weakly amyloid. Clamps are absent at base of basidia.

Originally described from Florida, USA under oak and solitary. This species is very rare and poorly known.  -- R. E. Tulloss

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