taxonID	type	description	language	source
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA. Guizhou Province: Bijie City, Hezhang (27.139 ºN, 104.877 ºE, 1700 m), 12 July 2018, Xiuhong XU holotype HKAS 1159035!, isotype HMAS 292389, Sequences from the strain HKAS 1159035 and HMAS 292389 have been deposited in GenBank with accession numbers: ITS = MZ 621154 - MZ 621155, LSU = MZ 621156 - MZ 621157, RPB 2 = MZ 666103 - MZ 666104.	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — Refers to the collection site “ Hezhang ”.	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	distribution	Known distribution: — Hezhang, Bijie, Guizhou Province, China.	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	description	Description: — Pileus 50 – 55 mm diam, dry, light brown (B 5651 D), rough when old, most obvious at the concave; uneven color, light brown (B 5651 D) to blackish brown (# 654321), paler toward margin; pruinose near centre, margin entire, decurved. Lamellae decurrent, white (W 3 C) to cream (# FFF 9 E 3), thick and brittle, 3 – 5 mm broad, edge concolorous to marginate, with 1 – 3 lamellulae located between two lamellae. The attachment to the stipe varies from adnate, adnate with a decurrent tooth to decurrent. Stipe 28 – 30 × 10 – 12 mm, hollow, dry, rough, concolorous with pileus, white at base, centralis or lateralis, tapering downwards or curved near the base. Spore deposit white. Latex white, unchanging when exposed to the air Context white (W 3 C) (# FFFFFF), mild. Basidiospores (4.79) 5.06 – 7.22 (7.30) × (4.67) 4.68 – 6.20 (6.59) μm; (Q = (1.01) 1.02 – 1.32 (1.38) μm, subglobose to ellipsoid, hyaline, with a strongly amyloid ornamentation composed of interconnected warts forming a complete reticulum up to 1.0 µm high. Basidia (35) 37 – 47 (48) × 9 – 12 μm, four-spored, sterigmata 1.7 – 2.48 μm long. Pleurocystidia absent. Marginal cells (22) 23 – 31 (33) × (3) 4 – 7 (– 8) μm, Q = (3.44) 3.54 – 7.43 (7.35), Q = 5.00 ± 1.50, fusoid, sometimes flexuous, thin-walled, hyaline. Hymenophoral trama subregular composed of scattered cylindrical, 2 – 3 μm diam, thin-walled hyphae and abundant. Pseudocystidia 5 – 8 μm diam. Pileipellis a palisade, 20 – 35 µm thick; suprapellis composed of subcylindrical to conical terminal elements, 20 – 47.5 × 2.5 – 10 µm, 1 - or 4 - septated, tapering towards apex, with brown; subpellis composed of 2 – 4 layers of cells, 10.5 – 16 × 9 – 14 µm, thin-walled. Stipitipellis a trichopalisade, 10 – 42 µm thick, terminal elements 9 – 15.5 × 2.1 – 5.2 µm, subcylindrical, often tapering towards apex, thin-walled, septated.	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	biology_ecology	Habitat: — Gregarious, Growing on the grassland in a coniferous forest.	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
03B987F68C1AFFA5FF18FF6C55FCFB3E.taxon	materials_examined	Specimens examined: — CHINA. Guizhou Province: Bijie City, Hezhang (N 27 º 08.317 ʹ E 104 º 52.633 ʹ 1700 m), on the grassland in a coniferous forest, 12 July 2018, Xiuhong XU (holotype HKAS 1159035!, isotype HMAS 292389).	en	Chen, A-Min, Pei, Yun, Wen, Ting-Chi, Hapuarachchi, Kalani Kanchana, Xu, Xiu-Hong, Zhang, Wan-Ping (2022): Lactifluus hezhangensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales) from Southwest China. Phytotaxa 575 (3): 253-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.3
