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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "African Gold Slender Caesar" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935). The cap of Amanita luteoflava is 30 - 40 mm wide, expanded-convex, glabrous, orangish-yellow, with the center's color more saturated, with a depressed center and a striate margin. The flesh is thin, white, and firm. The volva is absent. Gills are free, white, pointed at both ends, 3 mm broad. Its stem is 70 - 80 × 3 - 5 mm, cylindric, usually narrow, hollow, fibrillose, white. The ring is membranous, thin, fragile, superior, skirt-like, and white. The volva is membranous, ample, whitish. The volva is saccate (Gilbert 1941). The flesh is white and firm. The taste is bitter. The spores measure 7 - 8 µm in diameter and are globose. Gilbert's (1940) spore drawings measure 10.6 - 13.6 × 9.7 - 12.9 µm and are globose to subglobose and inamyloid. The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo where it occurs singly in dry forest. A watercolor by Madame Goossens exists, but neither Beeli nor Gilbert reproduced it. It seems plausible that this species could be placed in stirps Hemibapha but knowledge of it is insufficient to be certain at the present time. To my knowledge no one has treated this species since Gilbert and all knowledge is based on the single specimen of the type collection. -- R. E. Tulloss
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