Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Venenarius caesareus (Scop.) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 73. 1913
Agaricus Caesareus Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2. 2: 419. 1772.
Amanita Caesar ea Pers. Syn. Fung. 252. 1801.
Amanita pellucida Banning & Peck; Peck Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 178. 1892.
Pileus hemispheric to expanded, 8-16 cm. broad; surface red, orange, or yellow, rarely pale-yellow, smooth, shining, occasionally decorated with a patch from the volva, margin thin, deeply striate; context yellow, unchanging, mild and agreeable to the taste, odor none; lamellae free, subcrowded, bright-yellow; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-11X6-7/*; stipe cylindric or subventricose, not bulbous at the base, white or pale-yellow, slightly flocculose, stuffed, 10-16 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick; annulus ample, white or pale-yellow, apical; volva large, membranous, tough, white, forming a wide, free cup with lobed or toothed margin.
Type locality: Carniola.
Habitat: In woods. . .
Distribution: New England to Alabama and west to Ohio; also m Europe and Asia.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
