Amanita magniverrucata

Amanita magniverrucata
Young specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: A. magniverrucata
Binomial name
Amanita magniverrucata
Thiers & Ammirati
Amanita magniverrucata
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Mycological characteristics

gills on hymenium

cap is convex

or flat
hymenium is free
stipe has a ring and volva
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: unknown

Amanita magniverrucata, commonly known as Great pine jewel, is a species of agaric in the Amanitaceae family. First described scientifically by American mycologists Harry Delbert Thiers and Joseph Ammirati in 1982, it is mycorrhizal and associates with the tree Pinus radiata.[1]

See also

References

  1. Thiers HD, Ammirati JF. (1982). "New species of Amanita from western North America". Mycotaxon 15: 155–66. Retrieved 2010-07-10.


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