Amanita crocea

Cuticle with a layer of hyphae strongly separated by gelification, beneath which lie more compacted hyphae with ochraceous-brown intracellular pigment and devoid of clamp connections.

Scattered cheilocystidia present, smooth, clavate or pyriform.

Basidia very elongated, with a narrow base and strongly widened at the apex, 4-spored.

Spores virtually spherical or slightly globose, with a large central vacuole, thin-walled and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.