Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
 BCRC Number NO BCRC Number!  
   
 Scientific Name: Amanita esculenta
 
   
   
 Author:

Amanita esculenta Hongo & Matsuda, Index of Fungi 2: 229 1955.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 6-7 cm, campanulate to flat, brown, glabrous, margin striate. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, pinkish, smooth. Stipe central, 11-12 × 1-1.3 cm, hollow, grayish white, fib-rillose. Annulus white, membranous. Volva saccate, membranous, white. Spores broadly elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 10-14 × 7-9 μm. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Lienhuachih, on soil, 8 June 1995, CWN 0892 (TNM F0003338).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Scattered on ground in broad-leaved forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

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

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible.