Russula flavida

Russula flavida
Scientific classification
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

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]

A variant, R. flavida var. dhakurianus, was described in 2005 from Kumaon in the Indian Himalaya.[5]

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

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. JSTOR 3793015.
  5. Das K, Sharma JR. (2005). Russulaceae of Kumaon Himalaya. p. 203.
  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.

External links

Russula flavida in Index Fungorum.

Russula flavida in MycoBank.