Biology:Russula flavida

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Short description: Species of fungus

Russula flavida
Russula flavida Veracruz.jpg
Scientific classification edit
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

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]

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". http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=187446. 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". http://www2.muse.it/russulales-news/tx_photos.asp?index=5532. Retrieved 2014-12-24. 
  4. "Southern Appalachian Russulas. I". Mycologia 76 (6): 975–1002. 1984. doi:10.2307/3793015. 
  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. "A novel type of triterpenoid quinone methide pigment from the toadstool Russula flavida (Agaricales)". Tetrahedron 51 (9): 2553–2560. 1995. doi:10.1016/0040-4020(95)00012-W. 
  7. Russulaceae of Kumaon Himalaya. 2005. pp. 203. 

External links

Russula flavida in Index Fungorum Russula flavida in MycoBank.

Wikidata ☰ Q20720443 entry