normal agaricoid ontogeny (mode of development) of the basidiomes (fruiting bodies) -- as opposed to the schizohymenial ontogeny of Amanita -- with one result being that the edges of the lamellae are fertile (as opposed to the sterile gill edges in Amanita)
a universal veil comprising branching hyphae (attached to the pileus in all taxa and to the stipe surface in at least some) that support a more or less persistent layer of gluten (slime).
NOTE: The supraspecific taxa in the genus Limacella should probably be considered to be in flux, because the genus has never received a thorough revision at a monographic level that included all known taxa.
The most recently segregated section, Limacella sect. Amanitellae Gminder, seems to RET to be the most clearly defined of the three sections. The other two are (at this time) difficult to separate based on current knowledge.&nsp; They need amendment or, perhaps, they will simply seem to be an artificial division based on characters that are highly variable and, of which, the diverse states form something more a like a continuum than otherwise.—R. E. Tulloss
