Amanita brunnescens Atk.
Brown blusher

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Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 2.5-12 cm; stalk central, 5-13 cm long x 1-2 cm diameter, enlarged at base. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: basidiospores 7-10 µm diameter, globose, smooth, hyaline, blue in Melzer's.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: viscid brown cap and brown bruising reaction of context and stalk

Dynamically generated map
not common

Nutritional Mode: ectomycorrhizal

Substrate: on ground

Habitat: woodlands

Fruiting Season: summer, fall

 
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
 

 

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