A medium-sized Lepidella with a powdery whitish to grayish or olive-buff cap, gills that age to café-au-lait or olive buff, and a turnip-shaped rooting bulb that stains bluish to greenish blue. It grows mainly with oaks in the eastern United States and is usually considered uncommon.
Edibility unknown; do not eat. Section Lepidella contains poisonous species, and pale Amanitas can be confused with deadly amatoxin-containing species such as the destroying angels.
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Habitat
Ectomycorrhizal, usually with oaks, sometimes reported under pines. Solitary or scattered. Summer and fall.
Distribution
Eastern United States, from eastern Texas to Illinois, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Characteristics
Cap: 4-9 cm, convex becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; covered with abundant whitish powder that rubs off; whitish to grayish or brownish buff, sometimes olive; margin not lined, often shaggy. Gills: free or nearly so, close to crowded, cream becoming brownish (café au lait) or olive buff, with frequent short gills. Stem: 6-15 cm long, up to 2 cm thick, tapering slightly upward, colored like the cap, powdery; base staining bluish to greenish blue. Ring: large, thick, skirt-like, fragile, whitish, usually lost early. Bulb: turnip-shaped, often with a tapering root up to 8 cm or more; volval remnants powdery and indistinct. Flesh: white, not changing. Odor: not distinctive when fresh, becoming foul with age. Chemical reactions: KOH on cap negative, becoming faintly blue after about 30 minutes. Spore print: white. Spores: 8-12 x 5-8 um, ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid.
