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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies
  7. ›Pluteineae
  8. ›amanita mushrooms and allies
  9. ›Amaniteae
  10. ›Amanita
  11. ›Amanitina
  12. ›Phalloideae
Amanita exitialis
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Amanita exitialis

Amanita exitialis, also known as the Guangzhou destroying angel, is a mushroom of the large genus Amanita. It is distributed in eastern Asia, and probably also in India where it has been misidentified as A. verna. Deadly poisonous, it is a member of section Phalloideae and related to the death cap A. phalloides. The fruit bodies (mushrooms) are white, small to medium-sized with caps up to 7 cm (2.8 in) in diameter, a somewhat friable ring and a firm volva....

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1376552.