thegenus, which is a "plus" when it comes to identification efforts--but the accompanying "minus" is that the large size of this mushroom makes it easily confused with species of tricholoma (stem usually more stout; spores inamyloid) or leucopaxillus (gills often separable as a layer; copious mycelium...
not white or whitish--although it does share many oftheother lepidella hallmarks: a shaggy, "appendiculate" cap margin; a rooting stem base; an odd odor; and amyloid spores. add to these features the small to medium size of amanita onusta and its gray-on-gray cap (its pale gray cap surface is covered...