MicroDoc Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 Found in the leaf litter close to a bunch of blewits. I'm guessing Cortinarius based off of another recent post in this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCn15 Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 Yep cort would be my suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroDoc Posted October 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 Any thought on species? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCn15 Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 21 hours ago, MicroDoc said: Any thought on species? No...my knowledge of Corts end at being able to easily identify them and keep them out of my basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroDoc Posted October 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Fair enough. The key feature for easy identification is the brown gills and spores? I'm looking at Google images and man oh man, that's a varied genus. A lot of them bear little resemblance to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Hundreds of species of Cortinarius occur in North America. The genus is subdivided into subgenera, or groups. This taxonomy is currently in the state of flux (my understanding. It's a really complicated genus. Only a handful of species are readily identifiable in the field. Lifted the following from: Notes on Cortinarius in the Pacific Northwest. M.M. Moser treated six subgenera in 1983 : Myxacium, Phlegmacium, Telamonia, Leprocybe, Seriocybe, and Cortinarius, with Dermocybe as a separate genus. Brandrud et al. (1990-98) only recognized five subgenera: Myxacium, Phlegmacium, Dermocybe, Telamonia, and Cortinarius. These traditional divisions still have some value in dividing the species by their external appearance. They are specified here as "groups" with simplified characters. There are species with intermediate characteristics that do not fall easily into one of these groups. Myxacium group - both cap and stem slimy, e.g. C. mucosus, C. vanduzerensis, C. vibratilis Phlegmacium group - cap viscid, stipe not viscid, e.g. C. occidentalis group, C. olympianus (Bulbopodium group, included generally by Moser in Phlegmacium – at one time separate from Phlegmacium, cap viscid, stipe not viscid, prominent marginate bulb on stipe especially when young, e.g. C. olympianus) Dermocybe group - neither cap nor stem viscid, mainly small, slender stemmed, brightly colored, conifer loving species with conical fibrous caps and yellow, olive, orange or red pigments, no universal veil, (has been treated in the past as its own genus), e.g. C. smithii, C. neosanguineus Cortinarius violaceus group - dark blue-violet fruitbody, the group consisting of Cortinarius violaceus and C. hercynicus Sericeocybe group - neither cap nor stem viscid, violet to pale violet or lilac-white colors, caps often silky or shaggy, e.g. C. alboviolaceus, C. camphoratus, C. traganus Leprocybe group - neither cap nor stem viscid, a diverse group with olive, yellow, yellow-brown, rusty orange or brown color, caps not smooth (cap cuticles with particular microscopic structure), e.g. C. clandestinus Telamonia group - neither cap nor stem viscid, cap hygrophanous (watery looking when wet, opaque and lighter color with abrupt margin when dry), color typically in brown shades, e.g. C. acutus group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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