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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] :: Technical description (t.b.d.) (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935) and Gilbert (1941). The cap of Amanita aurea is 70 - 80 mm wide, golden-yellow, expanded-campanulate, glabrous and smooth, with a strongly striate from the central umbo to the margin. The flesh is firm, yellowish-white. The volva is absent. Gills are free, yellow, 8 mm broad, and pointed at both ends. Its stem is 100 × 7 - 10 mm, stuffed to hollow, exannulate, cylindric, silky, fibrillose, yellow. The stem is easily detachable from the cap. The volva at the base is membranous, ample, whitish. The flesh is yellow. The spores measure 4 - 5 µm in diameter and are globose and inamyloid. Measurements from Gilbert's spore drawings (1941) are (5.0-) 5.5 (-5.8) × (4.5-) 5.3 µm. The taste is peppery. The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo. The stipe is described as having a basal bulb by Beeli and Madame Goossens' watercolor suggests that this is the case. If this is confirmed in fresh material, the species should be moved to section Amanita. For discussions of members of section Amanita with a membranous, limbate volva, see A. lanivolva Bas and A. rhodophylla Beeli. -- R. E. Tulloss
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