''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
Similar species: Agaricales
