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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "Dark-Tufted Amidella" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935). The cap of Amanita floccosolividais 60 - 70 mm wide, flattened-convex, with a prominent umbo, with soft flesh and a nonstriate margin. The cap is pale lilac-gray covered with small lilac-gray floccose scales that are easily removed. The flesh is white, reddens on exposure to air. The gills are free, white, 9 mm wide, and pointed at the end of the stem. Its stem is 60 - 70 × 8 - 9 mm, solid, ochraceous-purple, generally cylindric, and curved toward the base. The stem is easily detachable from the cap. The ring is superior, membranous, skirt-like, ample, white, covered on the bottom with mauve flocculents. The volva is membranous, brownish, smooth on exterior, floccose-mauve on the interior. The flesh is white, reddens on exposure to air. The taste is sweet. The spores measure 5 × 3 µm in diameter and are ??. The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo in a forest of Gilbertiodendron. The totally elongating stem, membranous volva with an inside floccose layer, pink staining of the tissue, elongate spores, and the pallid color of the cap all suggest this species should be placed in section Amidella. Unfortunately Gilbert (1941) did not treat A. floccosolivida in his compendium of Amanita. As a consequence, there are no spore drawings to check against Beeli's reported spore size. Beeli's spore measurements are notoriously in error (too small). Especially with small-spored species, Beeli often reports a spore size 1 - 4 µm shorter in both dimensions than is found in recently gathered material. This observation should be taken into account in determining material otherwise macroscopically similar to A. floccosolivida. -- R. E. Tulloss
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