Amanita lividopallescens    (Gillet) Gilbert & Kühner 

common name(s) : Pale Grisette 

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

synonyms: Amanitopsis lividopallescens, Amanita lividoPallescens 

edibility : edible if well cooked

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

The cap is ochre, grey; its margin is striate. The cap surface is sometimes with scarse patches of white velar remnants, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is very long, hollow, thick at the base (2-3cm), with a white sheathing volva, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; the odour is faint, unpleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are cream to white, free, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, ditches, wood edges, clearings, on a rather calcareous soil, with oak, hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 12 cm (between 8 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 14 cm (between 7 and 25 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 10 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : ochre-grey cap, usually without veil remnants; toothed gills; very long stem with grey to white scaly belts and a sheathing white to ochre volva; on calcareous soil

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



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