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Multifurca roxburghii

Multifurca roxburghii is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the genus Russulaceae. Found in Himachal Pradesh, India, where it associates with chir pine. It was described as new to science in 2008, then under the name "M. roxburghiae", which is now considered an orthographic variant.

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Multifurca roxburghii
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
Genus: Multifurca
Species:
M. roxburghii
Binomial name
Multifurca roxburghii
Buyck & V.Hofst. (2008)

Multifurca roxburghii is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the genus Russulaceae. Found in Himachal Pradesh, India, where it associates with chir pine (Pinus roxburghii). It was described as new to science in 2008, then under the name "M. roxburghiae",1 which is now considered an orthographic variant.23

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  1. Buyck B, Hofstetter V, Eberhardt U, Verbeken A, Kauff F (2008). "Walking the thin line between Russula and Lactarius: the dilemma of Russula sect. Ochricompactae" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 28: 15–40.
  2. Multifurca roxburghii in MycoBank.
  3. "Multifurca roxburghiae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
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