Lactarius pseudomucidus

Lactarius pseudomucidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
Genus: Lactarius
Species: L. pseudomucidus
Binomial name
Lactarius pseudomucidus
Smith & Hesler
Lactarius pseudomucidus
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Mycological characteristics

gills on hymenium
cap is depressed
hymenium is decurrent
stipe is bare
spore print is white
edibility: inedible

Lactarius pseudomucidus is a fungus native to the northwestern part of North America. It has a charcoal brown cap, smooth and slimy, about 4–10 cm across, initially flat convex, becoming shallowly depressed. Gills are decurrent, with a bluish-gay tinge. Stipe is 40–100 mm tall, hollow, brittle. Flesh gray. Latex is milky white. There is only a slight odor, and the taste slowly becomes acrid. Spores are white in mass, ellipsoid, amyloid, about 8 μm long, with a reticulate decoration on the surface.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Roger. 1981. Mushrooms of North America. Boston: Little & Brown.
  2. ↑ Hesler, LR, & AH Smith. 1979. North American species of Lactarius. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  3. ↑ Smith, AH. 1975. Field guide to western mushrooms. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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