Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Russula alboareolata
 
   
   
 Author:

Russula alboareolata Hongo, Memoirs of Shiga University 29: 102. 1979.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Cap 4-8 cm broad,subglobose to broad convex when young, expanding to near plane, often infundibulate; margin entire and decurved when young, upturned and with many chaps at maturity. Surface dry, viscid when wet, conspicuously striate to tuberculate-striate 1/2 the distance to the disc; color white or whitish, unchanging color when bruised; context very thin, white. Gills adnate to slightly andnexed, subdistant, thin, rare forked, unchanging color when bruised. Lamellulae absent. Stipe 2-6 × 1-1.5 cm, cylindrical, central, stuffed; surface smooth, glabrous, with fine longitudinally, striate; fragile, context white, unchanging colour when exposed. Odor not distinctive, taste mild. Pileipellis well differentiated, clavate, 3-5-septate. Cystidia 45-80 × 8-12.5 μm, scattered, often embedded in hymenium, clavate to fusoid, or battle shaped. Spore print white or whitish. Spores 6.5-8.5 × 5.5-7.5 μm, ovoid or subglobose, with warts, with ridge and reticulum.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Guandaushi Forest (Hui-Sun Forest Station), alt. 500 m, under mixed coniferous-broadleaf forest, 6 Jul 2000, R89062029 (TMN); Nantou: Guandaushi Forest (Hui-Sun Forest Station), alt. 500 m, under mixed coniferous-broadleaf forest, 29 Mar 2000, R89032915 (TMN), alt. 500 m.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Solitary in mixed or conifer forests, broadleaf forests.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, China, and Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Imai R. and Hongo T. 1989.

   
   
   
 Provided:

E. F. T. Tschen

 
 
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