Amanita battarae    (Boud.) Bon 

common name(s) : Yellow-brown Grisette 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Amanitaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Amanitaceae [sub-genus:Amanitopsis section:Amanitopsis ]  

synonyms: Amanita umbrinolutea ss.auct. 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Amanitopsis vaginata-battarae, Amanita battarrae)  

edibility : edible if well cooked

photo gallery of Amanita battarae
photo gallery of Amanita battarae potential confusions with Amanita battarae toxicity of Amanita battarae genus Amanita  

The cap is greenish-yellow to greyish-brown, with a central umbo; its margin is striate. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is smooth or finely scaly, with a white sheathing volva, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are free, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods (low grounds) or coniferous woods (high ground), on a rather acid soil, with pine, spruce or various deciduous trees.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 11 cm (between 6 and 20 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 6 and 20 mm)

Distinctive features : olive-brown umbonate cap, with a darker band before the clearly paler striate margin; ochre sheathing volva at stem base

Amanita battarae is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Amanita battarae in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Amanita battarae in the forest of Rambouillet



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