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Amanita virgineoides

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Amanita virgineoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species:
A. virgineoides
Binomial name
Amanita virgineoides
Bas
Amanita virgineoides
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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 but not recommended

Amanita virgineoides, known as the false virgin's lepidella, is a species of fungus in the genus Amanita.

Description

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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 (11618 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 (12–1 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+12 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.

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  1. ^ "Amanita virgineoides". Amanitaceae.org. Retrieved October 5, 2016.