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[ Keys & Checklist/Picturebooks ] "Beeli's White Amidella" :: Technical description (t.b.d.) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following description is based on Beeli (1935) and Gilbert (1941. The cap of Amanita subviscosa is 50 mm wide, fleshy, plano-convex, slightly squamulose and viscid, entirely white, with a slightly striated margin. The flesh is white becoming slightly pink on contact with air. The gills are free, 5 mm wide, pointed on both ends, and off-white. Its stem is 100 × 7 - 11 mm, cylindric, fibrillose, white, straight, stuffed, and slightly furfuraceous. The ring is friable, white, leaving only a slight trace on the stem. Madame Goossens' watercolor shows the flocculents restricted to the upper part of the stem. The volva is ample and white. The volva limb is moderately thick and essentially saccate. The stem appears to be totally elongating. The taste is sweet. The spores measure 7.2 - 9.2 × 3.3 - 4.1 µm (Gilbert 1941) and are cylindric and amyloid. The present species was originally described from the Republic of Congo scattered in forests. The volva with an inner surface layer leaving squamules on the cap, the striate cap margin, the white flesh turning pink when cut, the exannulate stem with a floccose remnants in its upper portion, and narrow spores are all consistent with placement of this species in section Amidella. -- R. E. Tulloss
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