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Amanita inodora (Murrill) Bas
"Odorless Limbed-Lepidella"

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Technical description (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This description is based largely on that of Bas (1969).

The cap of Amanita inodora is about 30 - 60 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, white, dry, appendiculate, with a nonsulcate margin.  The cap is covered with very thin, inconspicuous, adnate, submembranous-felted to subpulverulent, small to rather large patches, or a more or less continuous, thin crust.

The gills are crowded, narrowly adnate, adnexed or free, and white.  The short gills are obliquely truncate.

The stem is short, about 35 - 55 x 10 - 16 mm, solid, white, exannulate, and without distinct remnants of volva (in the material seen by Bas).  The stipe has a pronounced marginate bulb that is obovoid to napiform (about 20 - 30 x 15 - 25 mm).  There is also a fluffy annular zone near the apex or near the middle, but no membranous annulus.

The fruiting body is odorless.

The spores measure (11-) 11.5 - 13.5 (-15.5) x 3.5 - 4.5 (-5) µm and are amyloid.  Clamps are not found at bases of basidia.

Amanita inodora was originally described from Florida, U.S.A. in association with oak and in mixed woods.  Coker collected the species in South Carolina.

Bas placed this species in his stirps Roanokensis (see A. roanokensis Coker.
-- R. E. Tulloss

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