Amanita brunnescens / Cleft-foot Amanita / Browning Amanita / Brownish Amanita

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Name

Scientific Name: Amanita brunnescens
Genus: Amanita
Species: brunnescens
Common Name: Cleft-foot Amanita; Browning Amanita; Brownish Amanita

Description

Age: mature
Scale: nat. size
Herbarium Number: 371

Collection Event Data

Collection Location: Chocorna, N. H. Found in beech woods, in a wet place, by the side of a rock, among rotten leaves. Mature plant.
Collection Date: July 25, 1906

Notes

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Notes: Margin of pileus not at all striate. Fine striae present on the gill-side of the ring.; There are no notes to the young plant, i.e., the one of intermediate size, with the stem already elongated. The plant was secured in woods at Chocorna, N. H.; These two plates were reproduced in the Nat. Geogr. Magazine for May, 1920, under the name of Amanita phalloides. Prof. Kauffman very kindly called my attention to this error.
Creator: Louis C. C. Krieger
General Information: The content of these records were transcribed from the original handwritten information, and although every attempt was made to do so accurately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription or the accuracy of the original information.; Common names were obtained from the following sources:; Miller, Orson K. and David F. Farr. An index of the common fungi of North America, synonymy and common names. Vaduz [Liechtenstein]: J. Cramer, 1975. 206 p.; Lincoff, Gary. The National Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1998. 926 p.; Smith, Alexander H. The mushroom hunter's field guide. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, c1980. 316 p.

Technical Details

Collection: University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
Image Size: 3836 x 6622
File Size: 455 KB
Record: 013
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-013/w20

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Full citation: "Amanita brunnescens; Cleft-foot Amanita; Browning Amanita; Brownish Amanita." In the digital collection University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-013/w20. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2025.