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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Amanita pareparina. Amanita pareparina

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: FUNNZ: 2006/0813, See public note for more information
Owner: FUNNZ

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
 

Article: Ridley, G.S. (1991). The New Zealand species of Amanita (Fungi: Agaricales). Australian Systematic Botany 4(2): 325-354.
Description: Basidiocarps small to large, solitary to subgregarious. Pileus 40-115 mm, convex to plano-convex, or plano-conical, margin inflexed, appendiculate (less so in older specimens), pale luteous ochreous, occasionally with slight rosy buff tinge, dry, possibly subviscid when wet, tending to split into large, fleshy squamules, volva remnants on disc conical to broadly conical warts, becoming smaller, subfelted crumbs towards margin, pale luteous, to ochreous at the tip. Lamellae crowded, free, 7-12 mm wide, smooth to slightly floccose margin, very pale buff; lamellulae gradually attenuate. Stipe 50-120 mm high, 10-18 mm diameter, solid, from bulbous base, 28-42 mm diameter, surface above annulus floccose, striate, flushed rosy buff, below annulus fibrillose, pale luteous, becoming finely scaled towards base, at base scales becoming larger, slightly recurved, and palisade-like, usually flushed rosy buff. Annulus membranous, striate, tearing unevenly, pale luteous. Context of pileus and stipe unchanging, white to very pale buff.
Spore print white. Basidiospores (85/8), 8-12 x (6.5-)8-10.5 µm, Qm 1.09, Q 1.00-1.25(-1.38), globose to broadly ellipsoid (to ellipsoid), hyaline, amyloid. Basidia 46-86 x 9-16 µm, 4-spored, not clamped. Lamella margin cells numerous, 18-5-47.5 x 14.5-31.5 µm, globose, clavate, sphaeropedunculate, hyaline. Pileipellis consisting of 85-140 µm wide, slightly gelatinised suprapellis, and dense, non-gelatinised subpellis. Volva remnants composed of globose, ellipsoid or clavate cells, 8.5-159 x 8.5-68 µm, hyaline, becoming smaller towards tip of wart, mixed with abundant, branching hyphae, 5-17 µm wide; tending to vertically orientated, and clamps absent.