| Family
|
Russulaceae |
| Accession Number
|
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| Genus
|
Russula |
| Species
|
maculata group |
| Species Author
|
Quél. & Roze |
| Date
|
26/10/2002 |
| Morphological Description
|
Cap
size: 6.0cm - 7.5cm;
shape: convex, centre depressed, decurved margin;
color: rusty; surface: smooth;
cap margin: striate, eroded, split, wavy
odor: earthy
taste: acrid/peppery
Gill
attachment: adnate
breadth: broad
thickness: average
spacing: close
color: creamy
edge: settate
misc: waxy, unequal
Stem
location: central
shape: round, equal, flexuous
surface: longitudinally striate
Habit: single, solitary
Habitat: terrestrial
Plant associated: ash |
| Collector
|
Andrew Ho |
| Number
|
AH1 |
|
Cap shape when mature |
3 convex to plane |
|
Cap shape in center |
3 depressed |
|
Cap shape from above |
1 circular-even if wavy |
|
color of top surface |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Secondary color top surface |
8 tan - light brown |
|
Cap color with age |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Cap stain color |
1 white |
|
Cap width |
50 - 75 mm |
|
Cap surface texture |
2 smooth |
|
Cap stickiness |
2 sticky or slimy when dry |
|
Cap has concentric zones of color |
|
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Cap stalk easily part |
No |
|
Cap hygrophanous |
|
|
Cap flesh color |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Cap flesh stain color |
1 white |
|
Flesh hardness |
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous |
|
Flesh toughness |
3 tough - does not tear easily |
|
Flesh fracture |
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|
Cap cross section |
3 incurved |
|
Cap margin surface |
1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge) |
|
Cap edge |
2 wavy or lobed |
|
Stipe shape |
3 equal |
|
Stipe core |
1 solid |
|
Stipe position |
1 central |
|
Stipe flesh hardness |
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous |
|
Stipe flesh toughness |
3 tough - does not tear easily |
|
Stipe flesh fracture |
3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction |
|
Stipe flesh color |
1 white |
|
Stipe flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Stipe primary color |
1 white |
|
Stipe secondary color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Stipe stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Stipe surface texture |
1 reticulate - net-like lines anywhere on the stalk |
|
Stipe width |
15 to 25 |
|
Stipe length |
45 to 95 |
|
Gill attachment |
1 adnate |
|
Gill collarium |
|
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Gill sawtooth edge |
|
|
Hymenium color when young |
|
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Hymenium color when mature |
|
|
Hymenium stain color |
3 pale yellow or cream |
|
Gills break from cap |
No |
|
Gills deliquescent |
No |
|
Gills mottled face |
No |
|
Gills secede from stalk |
No |
|
Gills waxy feel |
Yes |
|
Gills anastomosing |
|
|
Gills forked |
No |
|
Ring type |
5 none |
|
Partial veil type |
5 none |
|
Ring location on stalk |
5 none |
|
Ring number |
3 none |
|
Ring color |
|
|
Volva type |
6 none |
|
Volva color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Habit |
1 solitary or scattered |
|
Taste |
1 acrid/peppery |
|
Smell |
6 other |
|
Spore print color |
3 pale yellow or cream |
|
Latex color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Latex stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ammonia color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ferrous sulphate color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
| Reaction Melzer's color
|
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction potassium |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Spore shape |
3 elliptical |
|
Spore ornamentation |
2 rough |
|
Spore length |
7.0 |
|
Spore width |
6.4 |
|
phylum |
Basidiomycota |
|
material collected |
gilled mushroom |
|
trama type |
|
|
cap cuticle type |
|
|
clamp connections |
|
|
cystidia |
|
|
morphology summary |
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| Notes
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Date Created |
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Date Modified |
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