page_title: Amanita crocea
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Amanita crocea / Description
caption_attribution_description: Amanita crocea from Commanster, Belgium. The determination of the species shown in this picture has been verified.
context_page_description: Saffron Ringless Amanita is a species of Amanita widely distributed in Europe.
context_section_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. It expands to become flat or sometimes convex at the umbo, a  small raised central area.
  Volva: Thick, white, at least 40 – 100 mm wide, saffron orange or a little browner than that in colour in the centre when fresh and paler at the margin.
  Gills: Gills are free and cream in mass (sometimes with a slight salmon or pinkish reflection, and 2 - 3± mm broad.)
  Stem/Stipe: The stem or stipe is 85 - 230 x 7 – 14 mm, 10 – 15 cm long and 1 - 1.5 cm in diameter, tapering, decorated with paler fibrils in a "flame" pattern, with the decoration later becoming orange or brown-orange (darker than the underlying stipe surface) with a membranous sack-like volva at the base.
  Spores: The white spores measure (8.0-) 9.4 - 11.8 (-18.8) x (7.5-) 8.5 - 11.0 (-16.0) µm.
caption: Amanita crocea from Commanster, Belgium
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