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Nomenclature

Russula variata Banning (basionym)
Bot. Gaz. 6: 166. 1881.

≡ Russula cyanoxantha var. variata (Banning) Singer
Feddes Repertorium 33: 350. 1934.

≡ Russula cyanoxantha f. variata (Banning) Kühner & Romagn.
(nom. inval., art. 33.3 ICBN)
Fl. anal. Champ. sup.: 443. 1953.

Original diagnosis

Pileus at first globose, then expanded and centrally depressed, smooth, viscid, variable in colour and even variegated, brownish or pinkish-purple, with at times a cast of green, epidermis peels easily, the extreme under margin edged with a delicate line of purple, flesh white, unchanging; lamellae white, adnexed, narrow, forked, close; stipe white, smooth, more or less tapering at the base, spongy within; spores white, echinulate, 0003 by 0003 inches; taste acrid. - Plant nearby two inches high, pileus three or four inches broad, stipe nine lines thick. In woods near Baltimore, July.

Typification

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Published type studies: Hesler (1960).

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