Lactarius mairei Malençon is a fungus in the Russulaceae family, order Russulales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Lactarius mairei Malençon

Lactarius mairei Malençon

Lactarius mairei is a milk-cap fungus first described from Morocco in 1939.

Family
Genus
Lactarius
Order
Russulales
Class
Agaricomycetes

About Lactarius mairei Malençon

Lactarius mairei Malençon is a species of fungus that belongs to the large milk-cap genus Lactarius, within the order Russulales. The first known collections of this species came from Morocco, and it was formally described as a new species to science in 1939 by Georges Jean Louis Malençon.

Photo: (c) Federico Calledda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Federico Calledda · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Fungi Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes Russulales Russulaceae Lactarius

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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