Amanita manginiana

The cap of Amanita manginiana is around 5–8 centimetres (2–3 inches) wide, chestnut brown, darker in the center, with the margin more pallid, silky (bearing fine hairs), convex then applanate, fleshy, and has a nonstriate margin. The gills are adnate and white. Short gills are present. The stipe is around 5–8 cm high, cylindrical, stuffed, white, becoming orangish-brown. The bulb is fleshy, globose to ovoid. The ring is membranous, white, superior, skirt-like. The volva is membranous, limbate, and fulvous-white. The spores measure 7–8 × 6 μm and are ovoid to subglobose. Its spores have a length of around 9.2–10.3 μm and a width of 7.5–7.8 μm. The spores are nothing but amyloid rubble and the collected specimens are unfortunately, almost entirely useless.^[1]

This species is very poorly known. Sources state a species similar to A. manginiana from China under the name A. manginiana sensu W.F. Chiu.

A. manginiana appears to belong with a group of edible species that at the moment are classed in Amanita section Phalloideae, but the edibility of A. manginiana is unknown.^[1]

According to China Forestry Culture Collection Center, it is reported to be edible with potential medical use.^[2] However, due to close similarity to highly toxic species, consumption is inadvisable.^[3]

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