Cortinarius amoenolens    Hry 

common name(s) : Blueleg Webcap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Cortinariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Cortinarieae [sub-genus:Phlegmacium]  

synonyms: Cortinarius cyanopus, Cortinarius anserinus ss.Breit. 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Phlegmacium cyanopus, Phlegmacium anserinus, Phlegmacium amoenolens)  

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Cortinarius amoenolens
photo gallery of  Cortinarius amoenolens potential confusions with  Cortinarius amoenolens toxicity of Cortinarius amoenolens genus Cortinarius  

The cap is yellow to ochre, with sometimes shades of olive green, convex; its margin is smooth, fibrillose or with cortina remains. The cap surface is slimy (slime with bitter taste).

The stem is blueish then ochre-white, except towards top, with a round bulbous base, with a cortina.

The flesh is whitish to blueish (especially in apex of stem), unchanging; its taste is mild (except cap surface which is bitter); the odour is pleasant, fruity (plum); its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale blue then chocolate brown, adnate to free, rather crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 31 ). The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, most of the time with beech.

The fruiting period takes place from October to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 10 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 9 cm (between 4.5 and 14 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 10 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : negative reaction to potash.

Distinctive features : viscous surface cap with bitter taste; pale blue gills turning chocolate brown when mature; stem blueish then ochre-white; violaceous flesh at stem top; fruity odour (of plums)

Cortinarius amoenolens is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cortinarius amoenolens in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cortinarius amoenolens in the forest of Rambouillet



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