| name | Amanita ochracea |
| name status | nomen acceptum |
| author | (Zhu L. Yang) Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L. Yang |
| english name | "Ochraceous Slender Caesar" |
| synonyms |
Amanita hemibapha var. ochracea Zhu L. Yang |
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  1. Amanita hemibapha var. ochracea - Z. L. Yang (SW China)  2. Amanita hemibapha var. ochracea - Z. L. Yang (SW China)  3. Amanita hemibapha var. ochracea - Z. L. Yang (SW China) |
| cap |
The fruiting bodies of Amanita ochracea are large. The cap is 100 - 200 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, distinctly umbonate, brown over disc, becoming ochracous to yellow toward the margin, usually glabrous. The cap margin is tuberculate-striate (30% to 35% of the radius) and non-appendiculate; the context is white. |
| gills |
Gills are free to nearly free, crowded, white, with yellow to yellowish brown edges; the short gills are truncate. |
| stem |
The stem measures 150 - 250 × 15 - 30 mm, usually tapering upward, whitish to yellowish, covered with yellowish brown to yellowish squamules; the context is white, hollow; and the stem lacks a basal bulb. On the stipe base, the volva is saccate, 40 - 80 x 30 - 50 mm and membranous. The outer surface is white to dirty white; and the inner surface is whitish, with a white to yellowish internal limb placed rather high on the inside of volval limb. The annulus is membranous and yellowish. |
| odor/taste |
The present species is edible and often found in markets. |
| spores |
The spores measure (8.0-) 9.0 - 12.5 (-17.0) × (6.0-) 7.0 - 9.0 (-10.0) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are common on the bases of basidia. |
| discussion |
Amanita ochracea was originally described from Yunnan Province, China. This species is common in the subalpine to alpine regions of southwestern China.—Zhu L. Yang For more information on related taxa see A. hemibapha (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. |
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| name | Amanita ochracea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author |
(Zhu L. Yang) Yang-Yang Cui, Qing Cai & Zhu L. Yang in
Yang-Yang Cui et al. 2018. Fungal Diversity
91(1): 56, figs. 3(i), 10. ≡Amanita hemibapha var. ochraceae Zhu L. Yang. 1997. Biblioth. Mycol. 170: 67, figs. 50-52. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| name status | nomen acceptum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| english name | "Ochraceous Slender Caesar" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MycoBank nos. | 444647, 824971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| holotypes | HKAS 29522 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| intro |
The following text may make multiple use of each data field. The field may contain magenta text presenting data from a type study and/or revision of other original material cited in the protolog of the present taxon. Macroscopic descriptions in magenta are a combination of data from the protolog and additional observations made on the exiccata during revision of the cited original material. The same field may also contain black text, which is data from a revision of the present taxon (including non-type material and/or material not cited in the protolog). Paragraphs of black text will be labeled if further subdivision of this text is appropriate. Olive text indicates a specimen that has not been thoroughly examined (for example, for microscopic details) and marks other places in the text where data is missing or uncertain. The following description is derived from the protolog of the present species. NOTE: Spore measurements from papers by Z. L. Yang use his "Times New Roman" face for "Q" and "Q'"—respectively, " | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| basidiospores |
From protolog (Yang, 1997): [190/9/6] (8.0-) 9.0 - 12.5 (-17.0) × (6.0-) 7.0 - 9.0 (-10.0) μm, ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ecology | from protolog: Solitary or in small groups. In coniferous and mixed forests with Abies, Picea, Pinus, and Quercus species. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| material examined |
from protolog: CHINA: SICHUAN—Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture - Xiangcheng Co., unkn. loc. [3400 m], 11.viii.1981 X. J. Li 1998 (paratype, HKAS 8612); Xiangcheng Co. - unkn. loc. [4000 m], 16.viii.1984 M. S. Yuan 645 (paratype, HKAS 15783). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture - Barkam RET: CHINA: YUNNAN: ca. Zhongdian, ca. Salimpong Yaku, 24.vii.1996 David Arora s.n. (RET 258-1). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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