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The following is a list of species of the agaric genus Amanita.This genus contains over 500 named species and varieties and follows the classification of subgenera and sections of Amanita outline by Corner and Bas; Bas, [1] [2] as used by Tulloss (2007) and modified by Redhead & al. (2016) [3] for Amanita subgenus Amanitina and Singer for Amanita section Roanokenses.
The very recognizable fly agaric. The genus Amanita was first published with its current meaning by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1797. [1] Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Persoon's concept of Amanita, with Amanita muscaria (L.) Pers. as the type species, has been officially conserved against the older Amanita Boehm (1760), which is considered a synonym of Agaricus L. [2]
Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cebuano; Cymraeg; Dansk
The species was initially described in 1844 by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley as Agaricus (Amanita) ananaeceps, the specimen having been collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1805 in Tasmania. [1] Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo placed it in the genus Amanita in 1887. [2]
Amanita Pers. is one of the most speciose and best-known fungal genera. [1] The family, also commonly called the amanita family [ citation needed ] , is in order Agaricales , the gilled mushrooms. The family consists primarily of the large genus Amanita , but also includes the smaller genera Amarrendia , Catatrama , Limacella , Limacellopsis ...
Amanita phalloides is the type species of Amanita section Phalloideae, a group that contains all of the deadly poisonous Amanita species thus far identified. Most notable of these are the species known as destroying angels, namely A. virosa, A. bisporigera and A. ocreata, as well as the fool's mushroom .
Amanita jacksonii, also known as Jackson's slender amanita, [2] American Slender Caesar, and Eastern Caesar's Amanita, [3] is a North American species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae. It is a reddish-orange colored mushroom species which can be identified by its yellow gills, large, white, sacklike volva .
The cap is 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) wide and hemispheric. The gills are adnate, crowded, medium broad, entire, white, unchanging.. The stem is about 30 by 5–8 millimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in × 1 ⁄ 4 in– 3 ⁄ 8 in), narrowing upward, smooth, glabrous, white, unchanging when bruised.