 The species was first described scientifically by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859 as Agaricus ravenelii . Pier Andrea Saccardo transferred it to the genus Amanita in 1887 . It is in the subsection Solitariae , section Lepidella in the genus Amanita . Other North American species in the section Lepidella include A. abrupta , A. atkinsoniana , A. chlorinosma , A. cokeri , A. daucipes , A. mutabilis , A. onusta , A. pelioma , A. polypyramis , and A. rhopalopus . 
