Piebald Ringless Amanita

Amanita variicolor

Amanita variicolor is a mushroom in the family Amanitaceae and has provisional status.
Piebald Ringless Amanita - Amanita variicolor (Provisional name) A small, button Amanita with a tan cap that was lighter (cream colored) near the margin. The cap was covered rough, dry, buff colored patches. Margin was striate. Stout, white stem and crowded, white gills. Growing on the ground in a mixed forest.

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Appearance

Cap:

4-10 cm diameter, Ovoid-conical-rounded, bare or decorated with gray or orange flakes on yellow olive, pale yellow to brownish olive, brown or black; striate margin

Gills:
White, gray to salmon

Stipe:
10-20 × 0.8 to 1.7 cm, equal, not bulbous, mottled gray-brown fibrils, olive brown to orange, decorated in the lower velar strip gray and orange part, often stained rust to basis, not corrugated

Partial veil:
absent

Habitat

Mycorrhizal soil, mostly balsam, fir, and birch.

References:

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http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+variicolor
Taxonomy
KingdomFungi
DivisionBasidiomycota
ClassAgaricomycetes
OrderAgaricales
FamilyAmanitaceae
GenusAmanita
SpeciesAmanita variicolor