One new record species of genus Lactarius is reported in China: Lactarius purpureus R. Heim ex R. Heim. Materials were collected from Forest Farm of Xiaokeng,Shaoguan City,Guangdong Province. It is characterized by its orange-brownish zonate and adpressed scales, globose to broadly ellipsoid basidiospores with ridges or warts, subfusiform to subcylindrical-cone pleuromacrocystidia with acute or moniliform apex, fusiform cheilomacrocystidia and pileus surface hyphae being flat-lying.