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Amanita ananiceps
An amanita with a greyish cap about 70 mm wide and grey powdery meal and deciduous warts. Remnants of the universal veil could be seen hanging as shards along the cap rim, much like in A.farinacea and as a wispy ring around the stipe. The stipe was felty and white. Remnants of the veil could also be seen on the forest floor around the fruiting body.
Spotted in damp soil - eucalypt forest. (Sherbrooke Forest)
''Amanita ananiceps'' is a species of agaric fungus in the family Amanitaceae native to Australia.
The species was initially described in 1844 by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley as ''Agaricus ananaeceps'', the specimen having been collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1805 in Tasmania. Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo placed it in the genus ''Amanita'' in 1887. Australian mycologist Alec Wood spelt its species name ''ananaeceps'' in his 1997 monograph of Australian ''Amanita''... more
