Amanita ochrophylloides
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| Pale-gilled barefoot lepidella | |
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| Fruiting body, Mt Wellington, Tasmania | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Amanitaceae |
| Genus: | Amanita |
| Species: | A. ochrophylloides |
| Binomial name | |
| Amanita ochrophylloides | |
Amanita ochrophylloides is a large mushroom of the genus Amanita native to southeastern Australia.
A. ochrophylloides was first described by Derek Reid, head mycologist of Kew Gardens, in 1978.[1] He noted that this mushroom differed from the related A. ochrophylla in the shape of its spores, as well as the remnants of the membrane across the cap. The initial collection was of mushrooms growing on rocky black soil under peppermint gums and bracken at an altitude of 850 metres (2,790 feet), in Gippsland, southeast of the town of Matlock, Victoria.[2]
