Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Amanita castanopsidis
 
   
   
 Author:

Amanita castanopsidis Hongo, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon 43:192 1974.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 5-9 cm, campanulate to flat, white, with white cuticles, margin entire. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, white, powdery. Stipe central, 10-12 × 1-1.3 cm, solid, white, glabrous, base enlarged. Annulus membranous, fragile. Spores broadly elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I+, 8-11 × 6-7 μm. Cystidia not seen. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung: Anmashan, on soil, 5 June 1997, CWN 02355 (TNM F0008378).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Scattered on ground in mixed forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, China.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is poisonous.