Biology:Amanita longipes

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Short description: Species of fungus

Amanita longipes
Several "Amanita longipes" fungi found growing at Ocala National Forest, Marion Co., Florida, USA.
Several Amanita longipes fungi found growing at Ocala National Forest, Marion Co., Florida, United States .
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species:
A. longipes
Binomial name
Amanita longipes
Bas ex Tulloss & Dav.T. Jenkins
Amanita longipes
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Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is umbonate
hymenium is free
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: inedible

Amanita longipes is a small inedible mushroom species of the Amanita genus. It feeds on decaying leaves of some woods and can be found around the Appalachian Mountains. It is a food source for various insects.

Description

Cap

The cap is typically around 2.4–10.2 centimetres (1–4 inches) wide, is hemispheric at first then becoming broadly convex to plano-convex, occasionally also slightly depressed in center; white, pallid grayish-brown or grayish buff over disk in age, surface dull and tacky at first and becoming shiny.

Gills

The gills are usually narrowly adnate, sometimes with a decurrent line, close, whitish, becoming grayish-cream on drying, with white, floccose remnants of partial veil on edges, narrow, 4.5–11 mm (1838 in) broad, sometimes anastomosing; the short gills are truncate to rounded truncate to attenuate to attenuate in steps, plentiful, of diverse lengths, unevenly distributed.

Stem

The stem is 2.5–14.2 cm (1–5 12 in) × 0.5–2 cm (1434 in), white, and tapers upward slightly to a flaring apex. The stem is decorated with easily removed, floccose material especially in upper portion; the flesh of the stem usually does not take on a color when bruised. The flesh is white, occasionally graying in damaged areas, with a firmly stuffed central cylinder, up to 7 mm wide. The ring is fibrous-floccose and rapidly evanescent. Volval remnants are absent from the bulb and the stem base or difficult to distinguish.[1]

Toxicity

One guide lists this species' edibility as unknown but doubtful.[2] It should be avoided as many species of the genus are deadly.

References

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  1. "Amanita longipes". http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita%20longipes. 
  2. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4033856 entry