Amanita brunnescens

Taxobox
color = lightblue
name = brown star-footed amanita
status =

secure


image_width = 250px
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
subclassis = Hymenomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Amanitaceae
genus = "Amanita"
species = "A. brunnescens"
binomial = "Amanita brunnescens"
binomial_authority = mycomorphbox
name = Amanita brunnescens
whichGills = free
capShape = convex
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=ring and volva
ecologicalType=mycorrhizal
sporePrintColor=white
howEdible=poisonous

"Amanita brunnescens", also known as the brown star-footed amanita or cleft-footed amanita is a native North American mushroom of the large genus "Amanita". Originally presumed to be "Amanita phalloides" by renowned American mycologist Charles Horton Peck it was described and named by G. F. Atkinson of Cornell University. He named it after the fact that it bruised brown.cite journal |quotes=no |author=Litten W. |year=1975 |title=The most poisonous mushrooms |journal=Scientific American |volume=232 |issue=3 |pages=90–101]

It differs from the death cap by its fragile volva and tendency to bruise brown.

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