| Narrow-spored Destroying Angel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | Hymenomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Amanitaceae |
| Genus: | Amanita |
| Species: | A. virosiformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Amanita virosiformis (Murrill) Murrill |
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| Synonyms | |
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Amanita tenuifolia (Murrill) Murrill |
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| Amanita virosiformis | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
| gills on hymenium | |
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cap is convex or flat |
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| hymenium is free | |
| stipe has a ring and volva | |
| spore print is white | |
| ecology is mycorrhizal | |
| edibility: deadly | |
Amanita virosiformis, commonly known as the narrow-spored destroying angel, is a poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Originally described from Florida, is found from coastal North Carolina through to eastern Texas in the southeastern United States.[1]
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