Russula cessans

Species typical of pine woods, with a hemispherical to applanate pileus slightly depressed at the center, 3 to 6 cm across, vinaceous red with violaceous flushes; yellow spore print; hollow, clavate stipe; without distinct odor and with a mild taste.

Cuticle formed by cylindrical hyphae 2 to 4 µm wide, branched, slightly separated by gelification, with faint greyish-brown intracellular pigment, with some terminal hyphae acting as pileocystidia 4 to 10 µm wide, septate with simple septa.

Cheilocystidia fusiform to clavate, 40 to 90 µm long and 7 to 12 µm wide.

Pleurocystidia of similar morphology, 60 to 95 µm long and 7 to 13 µm wide.

Basidia clavate, 40 to 60 µm long, 8 to 12 µm wide, simple-based and four-spored.

Spores subglobose to ellipsoidal, with warts up to 1 µm high, 7 to 10 µm long, 6.5 to 8.5 µm wide, with their entire surface covered in warts connected by fine ridges.

Herbarium material available: JTP2271/24.