Russula chloroides

Species typical of both broadleaves and conifers, with a preference for Fagus, with an infundibuliform pileus 5 to 13 cm in diameter, creamy white; pale cream spore print; lamellae with characteristic greenish reflections; unpleasant odor and mild taste.

Cuticle filamentous, with cylindrical hyphae 4 to 6 µm wide, widely spaced by gelification, branched, septate with simple septa (without clamp connections).

Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia fusiform, often tapering to a short neck, 50 to 100 µm long and 8 to 13 µm wide.

Basidia clavate, 60 to 75 µm long, 11 to 15 µm wide, simple-based and generally four-spored.

Spores subglobose, with coarse warts up to 1.8 µm high, 8 to 10 µm long, 7.5 to 9 µm wide, surface covered with warts connected by low ridges, not forming a complete reticulum.