Amanita sp-Arora-00-328

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name	Amanita sp-Arora-00-328
name status	cryptonomen temporarium
images	1. Amanita sp-Arora-00-328, Copperbelt Prov., Zambia. 2. Amanita sp-Arora-00-328, Copperbelt Prov., Zambia.
intro	The following is based on the photographs and field annotations of David Arora.
cap	The cap of Amanita sp-Arora-382 is 50-130 mm wide and convex to planoconvex; its margin is grooved. The cap is bright orange to red-orange, slightly reddish-orange at the center, apricot towards the margin, with the very edge pale apricot. A volva is present as very fine, flattened pallid remnants (probably reddish cinnabar at first), which may go unnoticed upon initial examination.
gills	The gills are whitish to pale yellow becoming slightly buff with age, yellowish-apricot in mass, and white with a darker edge in side view.
stem	The stem narrows upward and (possibly) flares at the top; it lacks a ring; and has a base that is with narrowly club-shaped to slightly bulbous. The colors are like those on the cap only paler—yellow to apricot throughout and white at the base. The stem bears volval remnants in the form of deep reddish orange, powdery-flocculence, sometimes forming fragmented to scaly reddish-cinnabar rings on the stem's lower third, above the bulb.
odor/taste	No odor or taste was recorded.
spores	The spores of this species measure (7.3-) 7.5 - 9.8 (-11.0) × (4.5-) 5.1 - 6.5 (-7.6) µm and are inamyloid and broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate. The presence or absence of clamps on the basidia is not known at present.
discussion	This species occurs in small groups in open woodland in Zambia where it appears to grown in association with Msasa (Brachystegia spiciformis) and Uapaca sp. It is not eaten by the local people.—C. Rodríguez Caycedo, R. E. Tulloss, D. Arora
brief editors	RET

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