List of Amanita species
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The following is a list of some notable species of the agaric
genus Amanita
. This genus contains over 500 named species and varieties, so the list is far from exhaustive. The list follows the classification of subgenera and sections of Amanita outline by Corner and Bas (1962) and Bas (1969), as used by Tulloss (2007). Bolding of the species name and an asterisk (*) following indicates the species is the type species
of that section, with a double asterisk (**) indicating the type species of the entire genus. Use of common names follows Tulloss (2007), Holden (2003), Arora (1986), and Lincoff (1981).
Agaric
An agaric is a type of fungal fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus that is clearly differentiated from the stipe , with lamellae on the underside of the pileus. "Agaric" can also refer to a basidiomycete species characterized by an agaric-type fruiting body...
genus Amanita
Amanita
The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own...
. This genus contains over 500 named species and varieties, so the list is far from exhaustive. The list follows the classification of subgenera and sections of Amanita outline by Corner and Bas (1962) and Bas (1969), as used by Tulloss (2007). Bolding of the species name and an asterisk (*) following indicates the species is the type species
Type species
In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...
of that section, with a double asterisk (**) indicating the type species of the entire genus. Use of common names follows Tulloss (2007), Holden (2003), Arora (1986), and Lincoff (1981).
section Amanita
Amanita albocreataAmanita albocreataAmanita albocreata, also called the ringless panther , is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It is commonly found in northeastern USA and southeastern Canada and elsewhere in North America. This species, that grows about 5 to 15 centimeters in length, is doubted to be fatally toxic...
– (North America)- Amanita altipesAmanita altipesAmanita altipes, also called Yellow Long-Stem Amanita, is a species of agaric found on soil in coniferous and broadleaved woodland in southwestern China up to an altitude of 4000 m...
– (southwestern China) 
Amanita apricaAmanita apricaAmanita aprica is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. Described as new to science in 2005, the species is found in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, where it grows in a mycorrhizal association with Douglas-fir and pines....
– (North America)- Amanita armeniaca – gypsy amanita (Australia)
Amanita eliae – (Europe)- Amanita farinosaAmanita farinosaAmanita farinosa, also called Eastern American Floury Amanita, is a North American poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita, a genus of fungi including some of the most deadly mushrooms, as well as notably psychedelic mushrooms.-Taxonomy:...
– (eastern North America to Central America) - Amanita frostianaAmanita frostianaAmanita frostiana, also known as Frost's Amanita, is a small fungi species of eastern U.S.A. and southeastern Canada. The mushroom varies in colours from yellow, red or reddish pink usually.-Physical description:...
– Frost's amanita (eastern North America) - Amanita gemmataAmanita gemmataAmanita gemmata, commonly known as the gemmed Amanita or the jonquil Amanita, is a mushroom of the genus Amanita, a genus of fungi including some of the most deadly mushrooms, as well as notably psychoactive mushrooms. A. gemmata resembles the false death cap, tawny grisette and panther cap mushrooms...
– gemmed mushroom, jewelled amanita (Europe) - Amanita muscariaAmanita muscariaAmanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita , is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita...
** – fly agaric (cosmopolitan) - Amanita nehutaAmanita nehutaAmanita nehuta, also called Maori Dust Amanita, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It was first described by New Zealand mycologist Geoff Ridley in 1991. It occurs in New Zealand in large number. It has only a dark ring rather than a universal veil and white spores. It is found under...
– Maori dust Amanita (New Zealand) - Amanita pantherina – panther mushroom, panther cap (Northern Hemisphere)
- Amanita parvipantherinaAmanita parvipantherinaAmanita parvipantherina, also known as the Asian Small Panther Amanita, is a species of agaric restricted to Yunnan province in China. It is strongly associated with the Yunnan Pine Pinus yunnanensis...
(Yunnan province, southwestern China) - Amanita regalisAmanita regalisAmanita regalis, commonly known as the royal fly agaric or the king of Sweden Amanita, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. Common in Scandinavian countries, it is also found in eastern and northern Europe. In North America, its distribution is restricted to Alaska...
– royal fly agaric (Europe, Alaska) - Amanita rubrovolvataAmanita rubrovolvataAmanita rubrovolvata, commonly known as the red volva Amanita, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. First described scientifically by the Japanese mycologist S. Imai in 1939, it is widely distributed in eastern Asia. The fungus produces small- to medium-sized mushrooms, with...
– red volva amanita (Asia) - Amanita virgineoides - white-colored (Japan)
- Amanita xanthocephalaAmanita xanthocephalaThe vermilion grisette, also known as pretty grisette or vermilion Amanita is a colourful mushroom of the genus Amanita. However, although it is often referred to by the common name "grisette", it is not closely related to other edible species that carry this common name, such as Amanita vaginata...
– vermillion grisette (Australia)
section Vaginatae
- Amanita argentea (=Amanita mairei) – (Europe)
- Amanita battarrae (=Amanita umbrinolutea) – umber-zoned ringless amanita (Europe)
- Amanita ceciliaeAmanita ceciliaeAmanita ceciliae, in English commonly called snakeskin grisette, Cecilia's ringless amanita and strangulated amanita, is a basidiomycete fungus in the genus Amanita, section Vaginatae. It is an uncommon fungus found in woods throughout Europe and North America...
(=Amanita inaurata) – Cecilia's ringless amanita, snakeskin grisette (Europe) 
Amanita croceaAmanita croceaSaffron Ringless Amanita is a species of Amanita widely distributed in Europe.-Description:* Cap: The cap is free of rings with the volva and has a diameter of 5 – 10 cm, yellow-orange in colour with an apricot tinge at the centre...
– orange grisette, saffron ringless amanita (Europe)- Amanita fulvaAmanita fulvaAmanita fulva, commonly called the tawny grisette, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Amanita. It is found frequently in deciduous and coniferous forests of Europe, and possibly North America.-Taxonomy and naming:...
– tawny grisette, orange-brown ringless amanita (Europe) - Amanita liquiiAmanita liquiiAmanita liquii, also known as the Dark-faced Ringless Amanita, is a species of agaric found associated with firs and pines in southwestern China up to an altitude of 4000 m. It fruits from July to September....
– (southwestern China) - Amanita lividopallescens – (Europe)
- Amanita nivalis – mountain grisette, snow ringless amanita (Arctic/Alpine)
- Amanita orientifulvaAmanita orientifulvaAmanita orientifulva, also known as the Asian Orange-Brown Ringless Amanita, is a species of agaric found at altitudes of up to 4200 m in southwestern China. It is associated with trees, especially Abies, Castanopsis, Quercus and Salix...
– (southwestern China) - Amanita pachycolea – Stuntz' great ringless amanita, western grisette (western North America)
- Amanita pekeoidesAmanita pekeoidesAmanita pekeoides is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It was first described by New Zealand mycologist Geoff Ridley in 1991....
– Maori's sack ringless Amanita (New Zealand) - Amanita submembranacea – (Europe)
- Amanita vaginataAmanita vaginataAmanita vaginata, commonly known as the grisette, is an edible mushroom in the Amanitaceae family of fungi. Unlike many other Amanita mushrooms, A. vaginata lacks a ring on the stem. The cap is gray or brownish, in diameter, and has furrows around the edge that duplicate the gill pattern...
* – grisette (Europe, North America) 
Amanita velosaAmanita velosaAmanita velosa is an edible species of agaric found in California, as well as Oregon and Baja California.-Description and classification:...
– springtime amanita, bittersweet orange ringless amanita (western North America)
section Caesareae
- Amanita basii – (Mexico)
- Amanita caesareaAmanita caesareaAmanita caesarea, commonly known in English as Caesar's Mushroom, is a highly regarded edible mushroom in the genus Amanita, native to southern Europe and North Africa. It has a distinctive orange cap, yellow gills and stem. Similar orange-capped species occur in North America and India...
* – Caesar's mushroom, caesar, royal amanita (southern Europe) - Amanita chepangiana – (South-East Asia)
- Amanita hemibaphaAmanita hemibaphaAmanita hemibapha, commonly known as the half-dyed slender Caesar, is a species of agaric found in southeast Asia and Oceania, although some distribution reports may refer to different taxa....
(species complex) – half-dyed slender caesar (Pantropical) - Amanita jacksoniiAmanita jacksoniiAmanita jacksonii is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It is a reddish-orange colored mushroom species extends from the Province of Quebec, Canada at least to the State of Hidalgo, Mexico. It was given its current name in 1984 by Canadian mycologist René Pomerleau...
– Jackson's slender caesar, American caesar (eastern North America) - Amanita laneiAmanita laneiAmanita lanei , also known as coccora or coccoli, is a white-spored mushroom that fruits naturally in the coastal forests of the western United States during the fall and winter...
(=Amanita calyptrata) – coccora, coccoli (western North America) - Amanita spreta – hated amanita, hated caesar (eastern North America)
- Amanita zambiana – Zambian slender caesar (Africa)
section Lepidella
Amanita abruptaAmanita abruptaAmanita abrupta, commonly known as the abrupt-bulbed Lepidella, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family of mushrooms. Named for the characteristic shape of its fruit bodies, this white Amanita has a slender stem, a cap covered with conical white warts, and an "abruptly enlarged" swollen base...
– Abrupt-bulbed Lepidella- Amanita atkinsonianaAmanita atkinsonianaAmanita atkinsoniana is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It is found in the northeastern, southeastern, and southern United States as well as southern Canada, where it grows solitarily or in small groups on the ground in mixed woods. The fruit body is white to brownish, with caps that...
- Amanita austroviridis (Australia) – Australian verdigris Lepidella
- Amanita ananaeceps – White-veiled Lepidella, Australian pineapple Lepidella (Australia)
- Amanita cokeriAmanita cokeriAmanita cokeri, commonly known as Coker's Amanita, is a mushroom in the Amanitaceae family. The mushroom is poisonous. First described as Lepidella cokeri in 1928, it was transferred to the genus Amanita in 1940.-Description:...
– Coker's Lepidella - Amanita daucipesAmanita daucipesAmanita daucipes is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family of the Agaricales order of mushrooms. Found exclusively in North America, the mushroom may be recognized in the field by the medium to large white caps with pale orange tints, and the dense covering of pale orange or reddish-brown...
– Carrot-foot Lepidella, turnip-foot Amanita - Amanita inopinata – Unexpected Guest Lepidella (New Zealand, western Europe)
- Amanita magniverrucataAmanita magniverrucataAmanita magniverrucata is a species of agaric in the Amanitaceae family. First described scientifically by American mycologists Harry Delbert Thiers and Joseph Ammirati in 1982, it is mycorrhizal and associates with the tree Pinus radiata....
– Great-warted Lepidella - Amanita nauseosa
- Amanita onustaAmanita onustaAmanita onusta, commonly known as the loaded Lepidella or the gunpowder Lepidella, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family of mushrooms. It is characterized by its small to medium-sized fruit bodies that have white to pale gray caps crowded with roughly conical, pyramidal, or irregular...
– Loaded Lepidella, gunpowder Lepidella - Amanita raveneliiAmanita raveneliiAmanita ravenelii, commonly known as the pinecone Lepidella, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. The fruit bodies are medium to large, with caps up to wide, and a stem up to long and thick. The warts on the whitish cap surface are large—up to wide and high...
– (North America) Pinecone Lepidella - Amanita smithianaAmanita smithianaAmanita smithiana, also known as Smith's Amanita, is a species of agaric found on soil in coniferous and broadleaved woodland in the Pacific Northwest of North America...
– Smith's Lepidella (western North America) - Amanita solitaria or Amanita echinocephalaAmanita echinocephalaAmanita echinocephala is a large, whitish or ivory-coloured mushroom with a characteristic spiny, or warty-looking cap. It lives on chalky soils with beech trees, and appears earlier than most mushrooms of similar size in southern England...
– European solitary Lepidella (Europe) - Amanita strobiliformisAmanita strobiliformisAmanita strobiliformis is a species of mushroom.-Description:The cap is 3 to 10 inches across, is rough with warts which sometimes fall away leaving the cap smooth, whitish, and sometimes has some brown. The gills are free and rounded behind. The veil is large and sometimes adhere to the margin of...
– warted amanita (Europe) - Amanita thiersiiAmanita thiersiiAmanita thiersii, commonly called Thiers' Lepidella, is a sticky, saprotrophic basidiomycete North-American native mushroom of the Amanita genus. It is a white mushroom originally described from Texas, also found in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. It was named after American mycologist Harry...
– Thiers' Lepidella (eastern North America) - Amanita vittadiniiAmanita vittadiniiAmanita vittadinii, commonly known as the Vittadini's Lepidella , is a European saprophyte mushroom of the Amanita genus. It is believed that it is also one of the most ancient ones. This species is known to occur without accompanying woody plant symbionts...
– Barefoot Amanita, Vittadini's Lepidella (southern Europe)
section Amidella
- Amanita curtipes – (southern Europe)
- Amanita lepiotoides – (southern Europe)
- Amanita ovoideaAmanita ovoideaThe European white egg is a species of edible mushroom of the family Amanitaceae.-Description:The color of the mushroom is white to cream. The size is over 15 centimeters. The cap is 10 to 12 centimeters, smooth, fleshy, sticky, and convex to shield shaped. The color of the spores are white,...
– bearded amanita, European egg amidella (southern Europe) - Amanita ponderosa – (southern Europe)
- Amanita proxima – (southern Europe)
- Amanita volvata * – American amidella (eastern North America)
section Phalloideae
- Amanita arocheaeAmanita arocheaeAmanita arocheae, also known as the Latin American death cap is a mushroom of the large genus Amanita, which occurs in Central and South America. Deadly poisonous, it is a member of section phalloideae and related to the death cap A. phalloides. It is named after mycologist R. M. Aroche.It is...
– Latin American death cap (Central/South America) - Amanita bisporigeraAmanita bisporigeraAmanita bisporigera is a deadly poisonous species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It is commonly known as the eastern North American destroying angel or the destroying angel, although it shares this latter name with three other lethal white Amanita species, A. ocreata, A. verna and...
– destroying angel (eastern North America) - Amanita exitialisAmanita exitialisAmanita 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...
– Guangzhou destroying angel (southern China) - Amanita magnivelarisAmanita magnivelarisAmanita magnivelaris, commonly known as the great felt skirt destroying angel, is a poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Originally described from Ithaca, New York, by Charles Horton Peck, it is found in New York state and southeastern Canada.-See also:*List of Amanita...
– great felt skirt destroying angel (eastern North America) - Amanita marmorata subsp. myrtacearum – marbled death cap (Hawaii)
- Amanita manginiana – Chiu's false death cap (East Asia)
- Amanita ocreataAmanita ocreataAmanita ocreata, commonly known as the death angel, destroying angel, angel of death or more precisely Western North American destroying angel, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in the Pacific Northwest and California floristic provinces of...
– destroying angel, death angel (western North America) - Amanita pseudoporphyria – Hongo's false death cap (East & South Asia)
- Amanita phalloides * – death cap (cosmopolitan)
- Amanita subjunquilleaAmanita subjunquilleaAmanita subjunquillea, also known as the East Asian death cap is a mushroom of the large genus Amanita, which occurs in East and Southeast Asia. Deadly poisonous, it is a member of section phalloideae and related to the death cap A. phalloides.Initially little reported, the toxicity of A...
– east Asian death cap (East & Southeast Asia) - Amanita vernaAmanita vernaAmanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom, Destroying angel or the mushroom fool, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees...
– fool's mushroom (southern Europe) - Amanita virosaAmanita virosaAmanita virosa, commonly known as the European destroying angel, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe, A. virosa associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees...
– destroying angel (Europe) - Amanita virosiformisAmanita virosiformisAmanita 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.-See also:*List of...
– narrow-spored destroying angel (Florida)
section Validae
- Amanita aestivalisAmanita aestivalisAmanita aestivalis, commonly known as the white American star-footed Amanita, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family of mushrooms. The fungus is distributed in the eastern United States, south to Florida, and reaches north into the southeastern provinces of Canada. The cap of the fruit...
- white American star-footed Amanita (North America) - Amanita australisAmanita australisAmanita australis is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It is found only in New Zealand, where it occurs in Leptospermum and Nothofagus forest...
- far south Amanita (New Zealand) - Amanita brunnescensAmanita brunnescensAmanita brunnescens, also known as the brown American 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....
– brown American star-footed Amanita, cleft-footed amanita (North America) - Amanita citrina – false death cap (Europe)
- Amanita excelsa var. excelsa * (=Amanita excelsa var. valida) – (Europe)
- Amanita excelsa var. spissa * (=Amanita spissa) – grey-spotted amanita, European false blusher (Europe)
- Amanita flavella – orange Amanita, Australian yellow-dust amanita (Australia)
- Amanita flavoconiaAmanita flavoconiaAmanita flavoconia, commonly known as yellow patches, yellow wart, orange Amanita, or yellow-dust Amanita, is a species of mushroom in the family Amanitaceae. It has an orangish-yellow cap with yellowish-orange patches or warts, a yellowish-orange annulus, and a white to orange stem...
– yellow patches, yellow wart, American yellow-dust amanita (eastern North America) - Amanita flavorubens – yellow blusher (eastern North America)
- Amanita franchetiiAmanita franchetiiAmanita franchetii is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. It was given its current name by Swiss mycologist Victor Fayod in 1889 in honor of French botanist Adrien René Franchet. A...
(= Amanita aspera) – yellow-veiled amanita (Europe, North America) - Amanita nothofagiAmanita nothofagiAmanita nothofagi is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family. Endemic to New Zealand, the species was first described by mycologist Greta Stevenson in 1962. The fruit bodies have dark brown caps that are up to in diameter and covered with patches of soft greyish-brown scales or warts...
- southern beech Amanita (New Zealand) - Amanita novinupta – western blusher, blushing bride (western North America)
- Amanita porphyriaAmanita porphyriaAmanita porphyria, also known as the Grey Veiled Amanita, is a fairly common, inedible basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Amanita found in Europe and North America.-Description:...
– purple-brown Amanita, porphyry amanita (Europe) - Amanita rubescens – European blusher, golmotte (Europe and eastern North America)