Amanita ceciliae    (Berk. & Broome) Bas 

common name(s) : Snakeskin Grisette, Scaly Grisette 

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

synonyms: Amanitopsis inaurata, Amanitopsis strangulata, Amanitopsis ceciliae, Amanita strangulata, Amanita inaurata 

edibility : edible if well cooked

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

The cap is chestnut brown to greyish-brown; its margin is striate. The cap surface is covered with large greyish scales, especially towards centre.

The stem is striate or flaky, with a white to grey sheathing volva, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is mild too; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, free, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, more often on high ground, with oak, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 12 cm (between 7 and 25 cm)
  height of stem approximately 16 cm (between 7.5 and 30 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 15 and 40 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : grey-brown cap, covered with patches or thick grey warts, and with a grooved margin; fragile grey volva soon disrupting, leaving several distinctive belts at the stem base but no ring; large size

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



page updated on 14/01/18