BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Jenkins (1977).

The cap of Amanita pantherina var. pantherinoides is 30 - 100 mm wide, globose to hemispherical, becoming planar, honey-colored to dirty-cream colored with brown to chestnut to honey-tan in the center, viscid when wet, glabrous, with a faintly striate to nonstriate margin. The volval remnants are present as soft, small, white, floccose-fibrillose patches and warts, numerous and randomly distributed until falling away.  The flesh is thin.

Gills are white, narrowly adnexed to free, when free, connected to the stem by an extremely heavy, floccose line, crowded; the short gills are truncate.

Its stem is 20 - 110 x 5 - 11 mm, tapering upward, often slightly expanded at the top, white to whitish, stuffed to hollow, glabrous The basal bulb ovoid, white, smooth to minutely floccose. The ring is relatively large, white, superior, not apical, persistent. The volva is either as a submembranous, slight limb around stem base or simply floccose material around stem base.

The spores measure 8.7 - 10.2 (-11) × 6.3 - 7.9 µm and are ellipsoid to (occasionally) elongate and are inamyloid.  Clamps are rarely present at bases of basidia.

Originally described from the state of Washington, USA under the two names cited at the top of the page. The synonymy was proposed by Jenkins (1977). This species was originally found under conifers and hardwoods in wet, coastal forests.