Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Russula bicolor Burl. Mycologia 5: 311. 1913
Pileus broadly convex, soon nearly plane, up to 8 cm. broad; surface coppery-red intermixed with pale-yellow or ocher, viscid when moist, pellicle separable on the margin, glabrous; margin even, becoming striate when mature: context white, subfragile, acrid; lamellae white, drying yellowish, equal, broad at the outer ends, narrowed behind but not free, interveined, subcrowded; stipe white, spongy, becoming hollow, 4.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick or smaller: spores white, subglobose, echinulate, 8 X 8-10 ii.
Type locality: Newfane, Vermont, 342 m. elevation. Habitat: On the ground in mixed woods under yellow birch. Distribution: Vermont and Oregon.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY