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Growing next to six or so other mates, of which it was the largest in size, embedded in moss on the side of a ditch in otskirts of mixed deciduous woodland in South West Britain. Felt quite fleshy and sturdy. Cap 5cm diametre, style 10cm L, 1cm w at top nearly 2cm w at base. Style has a silky sheen and under fibrills looks (looked!) much paler than and whiter rather than yellowish/brownish. Photo does not service to spore colour, which is more cinnamon-like in shade than it shows (background white but looks blue...) Thanks in advance for any input

I found these large (up to 6 inch) Cortinarius species in about a 30 acre suburban deciduous woods after a prolonged dry spell. I haven't seen anything like this anywhere on line..The closest I've come to them is Michael Kuo's Cortinarius species 02 at MushroomExpert There were mostly oaks, but quite a few hickories, maples and some dead ash. They had a lovely blue/lilac/lavender coloring on caps and stems (above and below the rusty ring zone), the caps become mottled olive brownish overall with lavender areas near the margin and the bulbous stem bases became brownish on top of the slightly marginate bulb, probably from the profuse sporulation (they turned my fingers and the ground below them brown - that's my spore print). The median to basal annulus was ephemeral but wide and well-browned from the spores. The flesh had the blue color (more so in the younger ones than the old) immediately after cutting, but remained mostly white. There is a thin blue line just beneath the cuticle, which was dry and leathery. The odor is best described as earthy/dirty, like a dusty road. I did not taste. Other than Kuo's species 02, the only other thing I found even close is Cortinarius adonis, but that is a west coast species, and these didn't have the sulphur yellow to greenish yellow pileus or other features described in Index Fungorum . Any suggestions on a species?