Amanita pantherina var. pantherinoides (Murr.) Jenkins Cap 3-10cm across, convex to flat with a faintly lined margin; yellow-brown on disc, more honey yellow elsewhere; smooth, sticky when moist, dotted with small, whitish, cottony patches of volval material, and becoming minutely hairy toward the margin. Gills free to narrowly adnexed, close; white. Stem 40-110x5-11mm, stuffed becoming hollow, tapering slightly toward the top; white to pale cream; smooth with a large, white ring almost at the top of the stem; a white, oval-shaped basal bulb with the whitish, woolly volval material usually closely attached to the stem base with a slight, wavy, unattached margin. Flesh white. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 9.1-11.2 x 6.3-7.7µ. Deposit white. Habitat singly on the ground in mixed coniferous and deciduous forests. Rare. Found in the Pacific Northwest. Season September-October. Poisonous possibly deadly.