Russula roseipes

Species typical of montane conifers, especially Pinus, with an applanate to depressed pileus 4 to 8 cm in diameter, reddish pink with the center fading to creamy ochre; yellow spore print; hollow, whitish stipe with pinkish flushes; without distinct odor and with a mild taste.

Cuticle formed by cylindrical, hyaline, branched hyphae 3 to 5 µm wide, intermixed with cylindrical to clavate primordial hyphae 4 to 11 µm wide with encrusting intracellular pigment; all septate and clampless.

Pileocystidia absent.

Cheilocystidia fusiform, with an apical appendage, 60 to 90 µm long and 8 to 15 µm wide.

Pleurocystidia scattered, of identical morphology and measurements to cheilocystidia.

Basidia clavate, 40 to 50 µm long, 8 to 11 µm wide, simple-based, bearing two or four sterigmata (two- or four-spored).

Spores subglobose to ellipsoidal, with warts up to 1 µm high, 7.5 to 9 µm long, 6 to 7.5 µm wide, ornamented with warts coalescing into short, isolated ridges.