Species

Lactarius pseudomucidus (Gray-stemmed milk cap)

Lactarius pseudomucidus. Photo: (c) Christian Schwarz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Lactarius pseudomucidus is a fungus native to the northwestern part of North America. It has a charcoal brown cap, smooth and slimy, about 4–10 cm across, initially flat convex, becoming shallowly depressed. Gills are decurrent, with a bluish-gay tinge. Stipe is 40–100 mm tall, hollow, brittle. Flesh gray. Latex is milky white. There is only a slight odor, and the taste slowly becomes acrid. Spores are white in mass, ellipsoid, amyloid, about 8 μm long, with a reticulate…

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
  - Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
    - Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
      - Class: Agaricomycetes
        Order: Russulales
        Family: Russulaceae (Milkcaps, brittlegills and allies)
        Genus: Lactarius (Common milkcaps)
        Subgenus: Lactarius
        Species: Lactarius pseudomucidus (Gray-stemmed milk cap)

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