Technical description (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The cap of Amanita parvipantherina is 35 - 60 mm wide, convex to plano-convex, nonappendiculate, and having a tuberculate-striate margin. The cap is grayish to ochraceous, becoming brown to brownish over disc. The flesh is white. The volva is present in conical, subconical to granular, dirty white to grayish to yellowish remnants.

The gills are free, white, and crowded. The short gills are truncate.

The stem is 40 - 90 x 5 - 10 mm, subcylindric, and white. The stem bears a weakly structured pallid annulus. The volva is distributed over the stem in granular, dirty white to yellowish to grayish remnants.

The spores measure 8.5 -11.5 x 6.5 - 8.5 µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are not present at the bases of basidia.

The species occurs on soil in mixed forests with Pine (Pinus). It fruits from July to August in Yunnan Prov., southwestern China, at 1200-2500 m elev.

For species to compare within the "A. pantherina group," see the discussion of A. pantherina (DC.:Fr.) Krombh. -- Zhu L. Yang

Photo: Dr. Zhu L. Yang

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