Biology:Amanita manginiana

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Short description: Species of fungus

Amanita manginiana
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species:
A. manginiana
Binomial name
Amanita manginiana
Har. & Pat.
Amanita manginiana
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Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is umbonate
hymenium is free
stipe has a volva
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: not recommended

Amanita manginiana, also known as Mangin's false death cap, Chiu's false death cap, is a species of the genus Amanita.

Description

The cap of Amanita manginiana is around 5–8 centimetres (2–3 inches) wide, chestnut brown, darker in the center, with the margin more pallid, silky (bearing fine hairs), convex then applanate, fleshy, and has a nonstriate margin. The gills are adnate and white. Short gills are present. The stipe is around 5–8 cm high, cylindrical, stuffed, white, becoming orangish-brown. The bulb is fleshy, globose to ovoid. The ring is membranous, white, superior, skirt-like. The volva is membranous, limbate, and fulvous-white. The spores measure 7–8 × 6 µm and are ovoid to subglobose. Its spores have a length of around 9.2–10.3 µm and a width of 7.5–7.8 µm. The spores are nothing but amyloid rubble and the collected specimens are unfortunately, almost entirely useless.[1]

This species is very poorly known. Sources state a species similar to A. manginiana from China under the name A. manginiana sensu W.F. Chiu.

Edibility

A. manginiana appears to belong with a group of edible species that at the moment are classed in Amanita section Phalloideae, but the edibility of A. manginiana is unknown.[1]

According to China Forestry Culture Collection Center, it is reported to be edible with potential medical use.[2] However, due to its similarity to lethal species, consumption is unadvisable.[3]

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Wikidata ☰ Q28402848 entry