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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "Beeli's Amidella" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935) and Gilbert (1941). The cap of Amanita fulvosquamulosa is 80 mm wide, plano-convex, with thin flesh and a smooth margin. The cap is brown-tawny with a slightly prominent umbo and many pale squamules from the volva. The flesh is white. The gills are free, rounded at the stem end, 8 mm broad, white. Its stem is 110 × 11 mm, cylindrical, totally elongating, curved right, stuffed, undecorated, and white or slightly tinted pink. The ring is pulverulent, superior, white. The volva is membranous, ample, white. The spores measure 8 - 10.6 × 4.5 - 5.8 µm in diameter (1941) and are elongate on average and amyloid. The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo in dry forests. The totally elongating stipe, narrow spores, colors of the cap and volva, very thick volval sac, pinkish tint to the stem, and the floccose upper stipe all support the placement of the present species in section Amidella. Compare to other species described by Beeli: A. goossensiae and A. fulvopulverulenta. -- R. E. Tulloss
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