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Nomenclature

Russula cystidiosa Murrill (basionym)
Bull. Torrey bot. Club 67: 145. 1940.

Original diagnosis

Pileus convex to depressed, gregarious, 5-7 cm. broad; surface somewhat viscid, glabrous, uniformly miniatous, peeling readily, margin entire, short-striate; context thin, white, unchanging, odorless, mild; lamellae attenuate behind, equal, not forked, medium broad and medium distant, entire, white to (??) yellow; spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, apiculate, spinulose, 1-guttuate, ochroleneous in mass, 8-12 x 6-10 µm; cystidia clavate or fusoid, pointed (??) blunt, hyaline, thin-walled, about 30-60 x 8-12 µm; stipe subequal, smooth, glabrous, white, unchanging when dried, about 7 x 1-2 cm.
Type collected by West, Arnold and Murrill under an oak in a high hammock at Sugarfoot, near Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 29, 1938 (F 18353). Related to R. subrubescens but uniformly bright-red with milk-white stem.

Typification

Holotypus: 18353 (F)
North America: United States: Florida: Sugarfoot, near Gainesville
Under an oak in a high hammock

Published type studies: Hesler (1960).

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