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Lavender cortinarius

Cortinarius sp.

Description:

Approx 100mm tall; cap dry, gunmetal blue-grey merging to orange-brown at centre, flat domed; gills simple, close, pale tan; spores tan; stipe fibrous, narrow with the same gunmetal blue-grey colour.

Habitat:

In mixed leaf litter and debris on the floor of a dense eucalyptus rain forest.

Notes:

Cortinarius rotundisporus?
Distribution http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Cortinariu...
Not viscid on cap; stipe too blue; ??
Cortinarius lavendulensis? http://bie.ala.org.au/species/d9bc2874-3...

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Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on May 21, 2013
Submitted on May 29, 2013

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