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

Russula castanopsidis Hongo, Mem. Shiga Univ. 23: 42. 1973.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 3-5.5 cm broad at maturity, convex when young, plano-convex to plane, center sometimes slight depressed, cream color to chestnut brown, or chamois. Cuticle cracking or fissured near margin, and revealing the gills. Flesh thin, flexible, cream color. Gills free, close, forked, margin smooth, lamellulae rare. Color white or cream, unchanging color when bruised. Stipe 3.5-7 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm thick, equal or tapered towards the base, solid or stuffed; surface dry, white; context white, unchanging color when exposed. Odor mild, slight earthy. Cystidia fusoid to clavate with short head or mastoid terminal appendages. Spore print white. Spores 7-9 × 5-7 μm, subglobose to elliptical, warted, the ornamentation amyloid.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Guandaushi Forest (Hui-Sun Forest Station), alt. 500 m, under mixed coniferous-broadleaf forest, 9 Jul 2000, R89070916 (TNM); Guandaushi Forest (Hui-Sun Forest Station), alt. 500 m, under mixed coniferous-broadleaf forest, 12 Jul 2000, R89071205 (TNM); Pingtung: Chufengshan, alt. 700 m, 19 Sep 1997, F9672 (TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Fruiting from summer to autumn. Scattered to gregarious, rarely solitary under broadleaf forest, mixed coniferous-broadleaf forest or coniferous forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea.

 
 
 
 References:

Hongo T. 1973; Imai R. and Hongo T. 1989; Mao X.L. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

E. F. T. Tschen

 
 
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