Amanita excelsa, also known as the European false blushing amanita, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Amanitaceae. It is found in Asia, Europe, and North America, where it grows in deciduous forests. Amanita excelsa var. spissa is edible, but there is a serious risk of confusing it with the highly poisonous Amanita pantherina. Amanita excelsa var. alba is inedible.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Amanita excelsa has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens4
Marker genes3
eDNA detections124
Countries12
Marker genes sequenced
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★ITS★ITS1★ITS2
fungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type14 530 records
Wild obs. + sensor14 041
Museum / vouchered446
Cultivated / captive1
Other42
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO26 280 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy41% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 641≤1 km 2 215≤10 km 6 680>10 km 176
11 712 georeferenced · 2 329 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor14 041
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy57% within 1 km
≤100 m 34≤1 km 85≤10 km 80>10 km 8
207 georeferenced · 239 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence446
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions29 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Olocation not on record
47
Vitoria, ES
30
BDBClocation not on record
19
Helsinki, FI
19
Görlitz, DE
19
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
15
San Sebastián, ES
14
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
14
Copenhagen, DK
13
WU-MYClocation not on record
11
Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocagelocation not on record
11
TENN-Flocation not on record
10
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
9
Chapel Hill, US
9
Uppsala, SE
8
GJOlocation not on record
8
Kyiv, UA
7
Kew, GB
6
TUR-Alocation not on record
6
Staten Island, US
6
Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP
5
Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchlocation not on record
5
Trondheim, NO
4
Karlsruhe, DE
4
MeiseBGlocation not on record
3
LDlocation not on record
3
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
3
Tomioka, JP
3
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
3
Blacksburg, US
3
Davis and Elkins Collegelocation not on record
3
Salzburg, AT
3
Kuopio, FI
2
Turku, FI
2
Göteborg, SE
2
FLASlocation not on record
2
Zürich, CH
2
National Mushroom Centre, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Bhutanlocation not on record
2
Tilburg, NL
2
Bando, JP
2
Vancouver, CA
1
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Oulu, FI
1
Department of Plant Resources, National Herbarium and Plant Laboratorieslocation not on record
1
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
Chiba, JP
1
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
1
Acadia Universitylocation not on record
1
Stockholm, SE
1
JA-CAGPDS-CAMlocation not on record
1
V. N. Karazin National Universitylocation not on record
1
Ciudad de México, MX
1
Bronx, US
1
Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record
1
Warsaw, PL
1
56 institutions · 355 of 446 vouchered records shown · 90 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA124 detections
Where the DNA of Amanita excelsa was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found124
Studies independent surveys4
Countries12
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 124 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
Palearctic
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median14.1 °C 9.70–14.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.7 °C
Max temp (day)18.5 °C 12.2–18.9
Min temp (night)10.2 °C 6.00–10.2
Precipitation78.5 mm/mo 63.9–99.6
Air humidity61.5 % 61.5–66.4
Moisture balance1.30 mm/mo 1.30–36.5
Vapour deficit622 Pa 405–622
Wind speed3.30 m/s 2.40–3.90
Cloud cover38.9 % 30.0–49.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 113 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI124 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
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