Amanita pseudovolvata
Key to Gilled Mushrooms KeyThis is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.
Agaricales OrderFruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)
Amanita GenusFruiting body having a combination of some of the following characteristics:
Stalk growing out of a cup of cottony tissue called a volva (all white-spored mushrooms with a volva go here)
Cap with scattered patches or flakes of the same sort of tissue as the volva (see second picture), easily peeled off
Annulus (skirt-like ring on stalk)
Amidella SectionAnnulus almost always absent
Volva present, saccate
Cap margin not striate, or striate only right at the margin
When they're young, the colored universal veil material on the cap always seems crusty to me (the brown stuff here), rather than flaky
Amanita pseudovolvata Tulloss
Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.
Diagnosis
- Cap up to 2" across, often with brown fibrils
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Volva small, thick
Microscropic Characters
Comments
There are very few fibrillose Amanitas. Between the fibrils and its dark, rounded volva, this species looks a bit like a tiny portobello growing out of an acorn
This is an unofficial name, not being published yet (does this count?). This species is usually identified as Amanita volvata, but that species is much bigger
