Comprehensive Description
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Russula rugulosa Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: 179
1901.
Pileus thin, fragile, convex, then almost plane or depressed in the center, 5-10 cm. broad; surface varying in color from yellowish-red to deep-red, viscid, then rugosetuberculate, with wrinkles sometimes radiating from the center; margin even, then tuberculate-striate: context white, acrid or tardily acrid; lamellae white, equal, adnate or slightly rounded behind, rather close; stipe white, nearly equal, spongy within, 5-8 cm. long, 8-16 mm. thick: spores white, subglobose or broadly elliptic, echinulate, 8.5 X 9.5 ix.
Type locality: Adirondack Mountains, New York. Habitat: Among mosses and fallen leaves in woods. Distribution: New York, Vermont, and Connecticut.
- 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
Russula rugulosa: Brief Summary
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Russula rugulosa is a species of agaric fungus in the family Russulaceae. It was first described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1902.
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