Amanita molliuscula

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Amanita molliuscula
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species:
A. molliuscula
Binomial name
Amanita molliuscula
Qing Cai, Zhu L. Yang & Y.Y. Cui

Amanita molliuscula is a mushroom of the large genus Amanita , that occurs under beech trees in Shaanxi Province in China. [1] The mushroom is poisonous and may sometimes be lethal; it has affected 19 patients and caused 2 confirmed deaths. [2] It is closely related to A. griseorosea . [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Cai Q, Cui YY, Yang ZL (2016). "Lethal Amanita species in China". Mycologia. 108 (5): 993–1009. doi:10.3852/16-008. PMID   27474516. S2CID   7992902.
  2. Li, Haijiao; Zhang, Yizhe; Zhang, Hongshun; Zhou, Jing; Li, Zhongfeng; Yin, Yu; He, Qian; Jiang, Shaofeng; Zhang, Yutao; Yuan, Yuan; Lang, Nan; Cheng, Bowen; Zhong, Jiaju; Yuan, Mingxuan; Liu, Zhiyuan (2025-05-09). "Mushroom Poisoning Outbreaks - China, 2024". China CDC weekly. 7 (19): 645–649. doi:10.46234/ccdcw2025.106. ISSN   2096-7071. PMC   12075492 . PMID   40376178.