First person to use this name on MO: Nathan Wilson
Editors: Tim Sage, Oluna & Adolf Ceska, Joseph D. Cohen, Jacob Kalichman
Observations of:
this name (34)
this taxon, other names (5510)
this taxon, any name (5544)
other taxa, this taxon proposed (945)
Rank: Genus
Status: Deprecated
Name: Macowanites
Author: Kalchbr. nom. inval.
Citation: Grevillea 10(no. 55): 107 (1882)
Preferred Synonyms:Russula
Deprecated Synonyms: Elasmomyces Cavara, Russula murina
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
“[A]n artificial genus comprising many Russula that are not at all closely related but which were nevertheless grouped because of their secotoid fruitbodies.”
Noah Siegel & Christian Schwarz, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast (Ten Speed Press 2016) (http://www.redwoodcoastmushrooms.org), at 248
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