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 Russula miniata
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Owner: P. Leonard | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: McNabb, R.F.R. (1973). Russulaceae of New Zealand. 2. Russula Pers. ex S.F. Gray. New Zealand Journal of Botany 11(4): 673-730 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: pileus: 0.7-1.5 cm diam., convex when young,
slightly centrally depressed at maturity, slightly viscid, under wet conditions,
otherwise dry, glabrous or finely creviced, innately pruinose under lens, velar
remnants absent, pallid red to pastel red; margins entire, thin, faintly pectinate
in places. Cuticle composed of erect, thin-walled, or slightly thick-walled,
smooth, septate, hair-like hyphae to 100 µm long, 3.5-5 µm diam., hyaline or
tinted yellow, occasionally with yellowish contents in KOH, terminal cells unspecialised,
tapering apically, originating from a layer of inflated, sphaerocyst-like cells
5-10 cells deep; pilocystidia absent. lamellae: adnexed, moderately distant,
thin, simple, to 2,5 mm deep, white, not discoloured at maturity, lamellulae
rare. stipe: 1-1.5 cm long, ± equal, 3-4 mm diam.,
dry, solid, finely felted under lens, white: flesh white, unchanging on exposure
to air. Cuticle composed of interwoven, repent, thin-walled, septate hyphae
3.5-5 µm diam., terminal cells often projecting and aggregated into clumps:
caulocystidia absent, spores: spore print not obtained; spores ovate
to broadly elliptical, obliquely apiculate, apiculus to 1.5 µm long, 9.5-11.5
X 8-10 µm, ornamentation of dense, amyloid, truncated spines to 2 µm high, in
small confluent groups, joined basally by fine to moderately coarse amyloid
ridges and forming an incomplete reticulum, or occasionally isolated; plage
conspicuous. hymenium: basidia hyaline, clavate, 36-44 X 10-13.5
µm, 4-spored, sterigmata to 7 µm long; pleurocystidia scattered, numerous, fusiform,
hyaline, thin-walled, contents refractive in KOH, projecting to 15 µm beyond
basidia, apices acuminate or mucronate, 46-63 X 8-12 µm, cheilocystidia absent.
hymenophoral trama:
heteromerous, intermixed. context
of pileus: white, unchanging; structure heteromerous,
clamp connections absent. chemical
characters: guaiacol
on stipe base—n.r.
Habitat: Solitary under Nothofagus.
Notes: This species belongs in the section Rigidae
and is possibly best placed in the subsection Amoeninae as defined by
Singer (1962).
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