Local name: Gongsey Shamong

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Terrestrial and scattered to gregarious.

Description: Cap: 5-10 cm diameter, hemispheric, convex to campanulate and then plane, sometimes umbonate, surface bright tomato red when young, becomes opaque orange in the disk and yellow in the margin with age, margin striate. Hymenophore: Free gills, crowded, whitish when young to light yellow with age. Stem: 5-20 cm long and a cm wide, equal, surface spotted, yellow to orange yellow. Annulus: Yellow, striate and membranous. Volva: Saccate, membranous and white. Flesh: White. Spore Print: White.

Comments:Amanita hemibapha and A. hemibapha var. ochracea, belongs to Amanita caesarea by their macroscopic features, they are known as "chicken egg". This name is derived because in the early stages of development the fruit bodies are covered by the universal veil and appear like egg yolks which is also true for the local name “Gongsey”, but always shows part of the colour of the cap. It differs from A. hemibapha var. ochracea by the red to bright orange colour of the fruit bodies while the fruit bodies of A. hemibapha var. ochracea are yellow ochre.

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