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Amanita magniverrucata

Amanita magniverrucata
Amanita magniverrucata 11780.jpg
Young specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: A. magniverrucata
Binomial name
Amanita magniverrucata
Thiers & Ammirati
Amanita magniverrucata
Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium

cap is convex

or flat
hymenium is free
stipe has a ring and volva
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: unknown

cap is convex

Amanita magniverrucata, commonly known as Great pine jewel, is a species of agaric in the Amanitaceae family. First described scientifically by American mycologists Harry Delbert Thiers and Joseph Ammirati in 1982, it is mycorrhizal and associates with the tree Pinus radiata.



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