Technical Description. (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following is based on the original description of Miller (1992).

The cap of Amanita walpolei is 50 - 70 mm wide, convex to broadly convex, planar in age, dry, brown, with a nonstriate margin with scanty, appendiculate volval remnants. The smooth cap is covered with small or large patches of volval remains. The flesh is white. 

The gills are nearly free, close, white to cream color in age, and attached by a fine line. The short gills are present in two tiers.

The stem is 60 - 85 × 7 - 11 mm, nearly cylindric, stuffed becoming hollow in age, white, pale orange-yellow at the bulb [Ed. note: probably volva's original color], with a mealy covering disappearing in age. The basal bulb is 25 - 35 × 19 - 27 mm,  marginate to obscurely marginate, with some volval remains on top. The ring is apical, very fragile, skirt-like, white, often torn or missing in age. 

The odor is not distinctively or slightly "stale."

The spores measure 9 - 11 × 6 - 6.8 µm and are ellipsoid to elongate and amyloid. Clamps are absent at bases of basidia.

Originally described from the state of Western Australia in association with Eucalyptus and Agonis. -- R. E. Tulloss

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