BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The cap of A. codinae is 50 - 90 (-130) mm wide, fleshy, convex, whitish to pale brownish, dry, appendiculate, with a nonsulcate margin. At the center, the cap is covered with adnate to detersile, pale brown to dark brown, small to rather coarse, felted-subfibrillose, subpyramidal to flat warts, towards the margin gradually passing into appressed, fibrillose scales.

The gills are moderately crowded to crowded, adnexed to free, broad, white, and becoming cream to pale yellowish. The short gills are subtruncate to rounded or attenuate.

The stem is 40 - 80 x 10 - 20 mm, cylindrical, solid, white, turning brownish when bruised, with mostly incomplete, circular zones of brownish to brown, fibrillose scales.

The spores measure (7.6-) 8.9 - 13.0 (-16.5) x (6.4-) 6.8 - 9.4 (-11).0 µm and are amyloid and ellipsoid to elongate. Clamps are abundant at bases of basidia.

This is a species of the Mediterranean region, known from Spain, southern France, and northern Morocco eastward. Reports from other parts of the world (e.g., the Americas) are apparently all based on incorrect determinations. Amanita codinae is very similar to A. vittadinii (Moretti) Vitt. and other taxa in Bas' stirps Vittadinii. Like nearly all the other members of subsection Vittadiniae, it is known to occur without woody plant symbionts. -- R. E. Tulloss