NOTA: All members of this genus have been transferred to Amanita by Justo (Justo et al. 2010).
The species of Amarrendia Bougher & T. Lebel are hypogeous ("subterranean and truffle like"). At present, the genus is known only from Australia. The genus is largely based on shared elements of gross morphology. Molecular work has excluded several morphologically similar hypogeous entities originally assigned to Amarrendia that did not belong in the Amanitaceae. Evidence suggests that the truffle-like taxa in Amanita have descended from an ancestor or ancestors assignable to Amanita sect. Caesareae [ key (over 540 KB PDF) ]. The editors of these pages presently favor recombining all amanitoid taxa of Amarrendia in Amanita.
The type species of Amarrendia is A. oleosa Bougher & T. Lebel (2002).
[NB: Images and well-documented dried collections of Amarrendia are sought by both editors.]
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