Description

Pileus: convex with a central depression; 27 - 55 mm diameter; matt, with concentric rings; orange brown; margin inrolled.

Stipe: cylindrical or slightly clavate towards base; 30 – 40 × 10 - 13 mm; glabrous, matt; orange brown.

Gills: subdecurrent; crowded; bifurcating; orange brown.

Milk: watery, transluscent white.

Spore print: orange.

Spores:

Notes: The small cap with concentric rings developing and bifurcating orange brown gills are good field characters. This species is like Lactarius tawai from New Zealand, but it conforms to the characters suggested by Wang et al for the Genus Multifurca. More taxonomic work I needed.

Support

Growing in subtropical rain forest with Nothofagus sp.

Localite

NC100519, Foret des Geants, Patrick Leonard, 26 May 2019

Reference

Buyck, B., Hofstetter, V., Eberhardt, U., Verbeken, A. and Kauff, F. (2008). Walking the thin line between Russula and Lactarius: the dilemma of Russula subsect. Ochricompactae. Fungal Diversity. 28:15-40

Xiang-Hua Wang X-H., Halling R., Hofstetter V., Lebel T. and Buyck B. (2018) Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomic reassessment of Multifurca (Russulaceae, Russulales) using three-locus data. PLoS 13:11.

Patrick Leonard text 2019

Jerry Cooper sequencing 2020