BRIEF DESCRIPTION: (t.b.d.)

Amanita ceciliae is a European species that is incorrectly reported from many places throughout the world. In young material such as that depicted above, the cap is brown over the center and brassy elsewhere. Eventually, the cap becomes entirely brown.

Spores measure (9.5-) 10.3 - 14.9 (-25) x (8.6-) 9.5 - 14.3 (-25) m and are inamyloid and globose to subglobose (rarely broadly ellipsoid). A few "giant" spores are commonly found in a mount of gill tissue. Clamps are not found at bases of basidia.

The species is also known by the name A. inaurata Secr. ex Gillet, a later synonym. Fries used the name A. strangulata for this species, but his original description of A. strangulata states that it is a white species. According to Bas (1984), the Friesian name should be discarded as of unknown meaning. The Latin American species known as "ceciliae" or "inaurata" is A. sororcula Tulloss, Ovrebo & Halling. The North American taxa known under the above two names are several and, as yet, undescribed.

Some species with which A. ceciliae should be compared are A. antillana R. W. G. Dennis, A. beckeri Huijsman, A. calopus Beeli, A. cinctipes Corner & Bas, A. colombiana Tulloss, Ovrebo & Halling, A. liquii Zhu L. Yang, M. Weiss & Oberw., and A. sororcula Tulloss, Ovrebo & Halling. -- R. E. Tulloss