Amanita pyramidifera (Amanita pyramidifera)

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Amanita pyramidifera Family: Amanitaceae

Basidiomycota - gilled fungus

Cap: to 10 cm, convex at first, then flatter and finally plane, white to dirty white covered with large abundant conical warts, a little flatter towards margin, sometimes falling off with age.

Gills: Free, thin, white to pale cream, crowded

Stem: Long - to 16 cm, narrow (1-2 cm), firm, narrower towards gills, base bulbous, white to slightly off-white, occasionally a little deeper, with scattered scales and ridges, or fibrillose areas on the upper portion, pyramidal warts when immature.

Spores: White in deposit, ellipsoid, smooth amyloid.

Habitat: Wet and dry eucalypt forests, woodlands and parklands.

Substrate: Soil.Mycorrhizal

Habit: Solitary and groups

Comments: One of a number of buff, whitish Amanita species with prominent conical warts. The distinctive feature of this species is it has no persistent ring (annulus) and ellipsoid spores..

Amanita pyramidifera is listed in the following regions:

South Coast