BRIEF DESCRIPTION: All information is taken from Corner and Bas (1962). The cap of A. elata is 35 - 90 mm wide, campanulate to convex when young, becoming plano-convex with a depressed center or concave with a flat margin with age, with a tuberculate-striate margin. The cap is pale dingy ochraceous buff or dingy buff with a very faint sulphur yellow tinge, more or less umber or fuliginous in the center, and pallid whitish toward margin. The volva is present as small, scattered, irregularly shaped, dingy white, rather thick, floccose-membranous flat patches, easily washed off by rain.

The gills are free, crowded, and white to cream.

The stem is 50 - 130 x 4 - 15 mm, equal or attenuate upward, solid, becoming hollow, white to cream or slightly grayed, with firm, white flesh.

The spores from dried material measure 7.0 - 8.5 x (6.0-) 6.8 - 7.7 µm (from fresh material, 7.0 - 9.5 x 6.0 - 8.5 µm) and are globose to subglobose (infrequently broadly ellipsoid) and inamyloid. Clamps were not observed at the bases of basidia.

Amanita elata was described as a Collybia from forest in Singapore where Corner reported it was very common in rainy season.

The partial and universal veils may be easily lost in this species. Corner recorded that the caps were very glutinous; however, this material must be easily lost because Bas reports the exsiccata have only a very thin, colorless, ungelatinized surface layer remaining. -- R. E. Tulloss