Taxonomy

Russula sp 17 ined. Text Patrick Leonard

Red List Status -


Description

Cap: convex becoming centrally depressed; 25 - 40 mm diameter; minutely velutinous, areolate (cracked); pinkish grey with purplish grey centre and a white bloom; margin entire, somewhat inrolled.

Stipe: cylindrical to clavate; 30 - 50 × 5 - 8 mm; pubescent with pinkish grey floccules on a whitish base.

Gills: adnate to subdecurrent; white; lamellulae absent.

Taste:

Spore print: white

Spores:

Notes: this collection is similar to R. sp 16 but the cap shows a white bloom that is entirely absent from that collection so it may be different.

Patrick Leonard 2019

Geographical distribution