Lactarius cinnabarinus | |
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Species: | L. cinnabarinus |
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Lactarius cinnabarinus | |
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Zelleromyces cinnabarinus Singer & A.H. Sm. (1960) |
Lactarius cinnabarinus is a North American gasteroid fungus species in the family Russulaceae with a cinnabar-red peridium. [1] Up until 2024 it was considered to be the type species of Zelleromyces , [1] and like other members of its genus, it was concidered after phylogenetic studies that it should be transferred to the genus Lactarius . [2] [3] It was described from a collection made under pine in Jackson, Louisiana. [1]