Lactifluus hygrophoroides

Lactifluus hygrophoroides (formerly Lactarius hygrophoroides) is a member of the milk-cap genus Lactifluus in the order Russulales. It was first described scientifically by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859 as a species of Lactarius,[1] and was historically known by this name until the systematics of milk-cap species were recently revised.[2] It is a choice edible.[3]

Lactifluus hygrophoroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Russulaceae
Genus:
Lactifluus
Species:
L. hygrophoroides
Binomial name
Lactifluus hygrophoroides
Synonyms
  • Lactarius hygrophoroides (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) (1859)

See also

References
  1. Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA (1859). "Centuries of North American fungi". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. III. 4 (22): 284–96. doi:10.1080/00222935908697127.
  2. Verbeken A, Van de Putte K, De Crop E (2012). "New combinations in Lactifluus. 3. L. subgenera Lactifluus and Piperati". Mycotaxon. 120: 443–50. doi:10.5248/120.443. hdl:1854/LU-3150382.
  3. Phillips, Roger (2010) [2005]. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.


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