Russula flavida

Russula flavida is a member of the large mushroom genus Russula, described in 1880 by American botanist and mycologist Charles Christopher Frost[2] and found in North America and parts of Asia.[3] It has a bright yellow to orange yellow cap and stipe and white gills.[4]

Russula flavida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
Genus: Russula
Species:
R. flavida
Binomial name
Russula flavida
Frost 1880
Synonyms[1]

Russula mariae var. flavida (Frost) Singer 1940

The species is edible[5] and contains the pigment russulaflavidin and a related compound.[6]

A variant, R. flavida var. dhakurianus, was described in 2005 from Kumaon in the Indian Himalaya.[7]

References
  1. "MycoBank: Russula flavida". Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  2. Peck (1879). "Report of the Botanist (1878)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 32: 17–72.
  3. "Russulales News: Russula flavida". Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  4. Bills GF, Miller OK Jr (1984). "Southern Appalachian Russulas. I". Mycologia. 76 (6): 975–1002. doi:10.2307/3793015. JSTOR 3793015.
  5. Phillips, Roger (2010) [2005]. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
  6. Fröde R, Bröckelmann M, Steffan B, Steglich W, Marumoto R (1995). "A novel type of triterpenoid quinone methide pigment from the toadstool Russula flavida (Agaricales)". Tetrahedron. 51 (9): 2553–2560. doi:10.1016/0040-4020(95)00012-W.
  7. Das K, Sharma JR (2005). Russulaceae of Kumaon Himalaya. p. 203.

Russula flavida in Index Fungorum Russula flavida in MycoBank.


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