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Webcap

Cortinarius sp.

Description:

With caps up to about 45 mm wide, these purplish grey mushrooms were growing in clumps.. Mature caps were smooth with undulating margins but younger caps were convex with small silky fibres. The interesting feature about these mushrooms were their pale stipes which were narrow at the base and widen towards the cap, flaring to an oval shape. The stipe was tinged with brown -?spores. Gills were brown and slightly decurrent. Spore print was a coffee brown (pic 6)

Habitat:

Growing in grassy verge by a suburban road. The area is mowed regularly.

Notes:

Thanks to RandyL for help with identifying the genus. I am not able to find an exact match so, will leave it at the genus level. The features match that of Cortinarius mushrooms.
The web references are for general information on this genus, only. Australian Cortinarius apparently remains poorly documented.

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2 Comments

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago

Thanks so much for the lead RandyL. Will check Cortinarius.

RandyL.
RandyL. 9 years ago

It's a Cortinarius species, not sure which one.

Leuba Ridgway
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Leuba Ridgway

Spotted on Jun 4, 2014
Submitted on Jun 6, 2014

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