BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The description of Amanita eriophora is derived from that of Bas (1969>).

The cap of A. eriophora is 90 - 220 mm wide, hemispherical at first, becoming convex with a flattened center, then plane or slightly concave, sometimes with an umbo, slightly viscid, appendiculate, with a nonstriate margin. The cap is pale dingy brown to pale brownish or yellowish. The flesh is white, pinkish with age, firm, and very slowly but distinctly rufescent on bruising or cutting. The volva is present at first as a subfloccose-felted grayish umber volva of unequal thickness, later on with grayish brown, subfloccose-felted, adnate, large, flat patches and scattered, irregular more or less conical warts.

The gills are free, with a slight decurrent lines on apex of stem, crowded, white, and then cream.

The stem is 120 - 160 x 15 - 22 mm, subglobose, or napiform, sometimes strongly marginate, solid, firm, and whitish to pallid root. The bulb is covered with an adnate volva.

The spores measure (8.0-) 9.0 - 11.0 (-12.0) x 7.0 - 9.5 (-10.5) µm and are amyloid and broadly ellipsoid. Clamps were not observed at bases of basidia.

Amanita eriophora was originally described from West Bengal, India and has also been reported from Singapore (Corner & Bas, 1962). Little is known concerning its possible symbionts.

Bas based his stirps Eriophora on this species. In addition, he included in stirps Eriophora A. berkeleyi (Hook. f. in Berk.) Bas and A. borneensis Boedijn.
-- R. E. Tulloss