University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium: Fungi (NCU:Fungi)
NCU-F-0009483
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Russula albida Peck
Russulaceae
Coker, William Chambers
14216
1947-09-27
United States, North Carolina, Orange, Chapel Hill, 1/2 way down Lone Pine Hill.
35.922374 -79.04757 +-190m.
Mixed pine + deciduous woods
spores distinctly cream-colored subglobose, moderately warted. cap 4.5 cm wide, slightly concave. globuous, white fading creamy margin faintly striate in [illegible], flesh white, soft, rather brittle, very acrid. gills close white thin creamy, few forked near stem, many inserted. stem stout 5 cm long, 1.4 cm thick in center. glabrous pure white, [illegible] thickest near base. soft in center + [illegible] with [illegible] odor none.
5 - 7.4 x 7 - 8.2 microns, not counting the rather strong mucro.