Amanita virgineoides
Species of fungus
| Amanita virgineoides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Amanitaceae |
| Genus: | Amanita |
| Species: | A. virgineoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Amanita virgineoides Bas | |
Species of fungus
Amanita virgineoides Mycological characteristics | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is umbonate |
 | Hymenium is free |
 | Stipe has a volva |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Amanita virgineoides, known as the false virgin's lepidella, is a species of fungus in the genus Amanita.
Description
The basidiocarps are medium-sized to large. The cap is 7–15 centimetres (3–6 inches) wide, convex to applanate, sometimes concave, and white, covered with white, conical to pyramid volval remnants 1–3 millimetres (1⁄16–1⁄8 in) high and wide. The cap margin is smooth and appendiculate, and the context is white and unchanging.[1]
The gills are free to subfree and white to cream; the short gills are attenuate.
The stipe is 10–20 cm (4–8 in) × 1.5–3 cm (1⁄2–1 in), subcylindric or slightly attenuate upwards, white, covered with white floccose squamules; the context is white; the stipe's basal bulb is 3–4 cm (1–1+1⁄2 in) wide, ventricose, ovoid to subglobose, with its upper part covered with white, verrucose to granular volval remnants. The annulus is white; its upper surface bears fine, radial striations; and its lower surface, verrucose to conical warts. The annulus is often broken during expansion of the cap.
The spores measure 8–10 × 6–7.5 μm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and amyloid. Clamps are common at bases of basidia.
See also
- List of Amanita species
References
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Amanita species
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