Amanita longipes
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.
| Amanita longipes | |
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| Several Amanita longipes fungi found growing at Ocala National Forest, Marion Co., Florida, United States. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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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 | gills on hymenium |
 | cap is umbonate |
 | hymenium is free |
 | spore print is white |
 | ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | edibility: inedible |
Description
Cap
The cap is typically around 24 – 102 mm (2.4 – 10.2 cm) 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 (0.45 – 1.1 cm) 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 25 – 142 (2.5 – 14.2 cm) × 5 – 20 mm (0.5 – 2 cm), 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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- http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita%20longipes Retrieved October 17, 2016
- Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
