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Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866

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Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866

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(Fr.) Bertill.
Fr.
Bertill.
1866
499
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Amanita excelsa

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excelsa

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Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866

Provided that the identification is correct, this species must be considered as having been introduced into New Zealand with exotic trees such as spruce or fir.

Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866

The following description covers the New Zealand collections. Pileus 5-6 cm. diam., grey-fawn, viscid, darker at centre, somewhat mealy patches of volva stuck on surface. Gills free, creamy-white, rather crowded. Stipe 1-2 x 7-8 cm., white or grey tinted, velvety above, and silky floccose below the ring which is characteristically full and striate. Volva concrescent to swollen base of stipe. Spores amyloid, subglobose, 7-9um diam., or ovoid 8-9 x 6um.
under pine plantations, Otari, 29.7.1948, Stevenson, and at Day's Bay, 7.6.1952, Stevenson; under second growth scrub, Wellington, 1.7.1949, Stevenson; under Nothofagus, Nelson, 20.5.1956, Stevenson; near Wellington, 3.5.1958, Stevenson.
Specimens of these collections differ only slightly from many published descriptions and illustrations of this well known toadstool. According to Lange this species is very variable with differing habitat and weather.

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Agaricus excelsus Fr. (1821)
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. (1866)
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. (1866)
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. (1866)
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. 1866
Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill. (1866)

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1 January 2000
27 October 2022
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