Caesar's Amanita vs Ferny Azolla

Amanita caesarea compared with Azolla pinnata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Caesar's Amanita	Ferny Azolla
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Tracheophyta
Class	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Agaricales (Gilled Mushrooms)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Agaricaceae (Agarics)	Salviniaceae
Genus	Amanita (Amanitas)	Azolla
Species	Amanita caesarea	Azolla pinnata

Conservation Status

Caesar's Amanita

LC — Least Concern

Ferny Azolla

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Caesar's Amanita	Ferny Azolla
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Caesar's Amanita

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Taiwan, and United States.

Ferny Azolla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas spanning the Palearctic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan), North America (Mexico, United States), and Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu).

Caesar's Amanita

The Caesar's Amanita (Amanita caesarea) is a species in the genus Amanita. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.