Russula omnileuca, a new species from Pernambuco, Brazil

Mariana Cavalcante e Almeida Sá, & Felipe Wartchow

Sydowia 68: 63–68

Published online on May 31st, 2016

Russula omnileuca is a new species from Caatinga, belong to section Metachromaticae Singer. It is characterized by the White pileus with buff dots, very crowded narrow and numerous lamellae, hyaline, amyloid, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid basidiospores with ornamentations up to 1 μm, and a pileipellis with thin-walled and metachomatic pileocystidia.

Keywords: taxonomy, Basidiomycota, Russulaceae, Caatinga, Neotropic.

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