Hygrophorus purpurascens, commonly known as the purple-red waxy cap,[3] is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. Its cap has a pink background color with streaks of purplish red overlaid, and mature gills have red spots.
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Limacium purpurascens is a synonym. The specific epithet purpurascens means "becoming purple". It is commonly known as the "veiled purple hygrophorus". The...
edible but sources differ as to its quality. List of Hygrophorus species "Fungorum synonymy: Hygrophorus russula". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved...
genus Hygrophorus. Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described it as Agaricus pudorinus in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum. It became Hygrophorus pudorinus...
erubescens, meaning "reddening" or "blushing". It became Hygrophorus erubescens with the raising of Hygrophorus to genus rank. Common names include blotched woodwax...
family included not only the waxcap-related genera Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe, Camarophyllus (= Hygrophorus), and Godfrinia (= Hygrocybe), but also Gomphidius...
Hygrophoropsis refers to a likeness (Greek: ὄψις, opsis) to the genus Hygrophorus. Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca has been confused with the true chanterelles...
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