Amanita brunnescens

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Amanita brunnescens

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Brown star-footed Amanita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: A. brunnescens
Binomial name
Amanita brunnescens
Amanita brunnescens
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Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is convex
hymenium is free
stipe has a ring and volva
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: poisonous

Amanita brunnescens, also known as the brown American star-footed amanita[1] or cleft-footed amanita is a native North American mushroom of the large genus Amanita. Originally presumed to be Amanita phalloides by renowned American mycologist Charles Horton Peck it was described and named by G. F. Atkinson of Cornell University. He named it after the fact that it bruised brown.[2]

It differs from the death cap by its fragile volva and tendency to bruise brown.

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References

  1. ^ Tulloss R. "Amanita brunnescens G. F. Atk.". Amanita studies. http://pluto.njcc.com/~ret/amanita/species/brunnesc.html. Retrieved 2009-12-31. 
  2. ^ Litten W. (1975). "The most poisonous mushrooms". Scientific American 232 (3): 90–101. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0375-90. PMID 1114308. 



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