Cortinarius torvus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Stocking Webcap 

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

synonyms: Telamonia torvus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Telamonia torva)  

edibility : inedible

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

The cap is brown violet then brownish beige. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is violaceous white to ochre, bulbous, with a membranous ring, with a cortina.

The flesh is white to violaceous, unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is sweet, of dried plums, pelargonium and pear alcohol; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are violaceous then rusty red, adnate, distant . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with beech, birch, sometimes with conifers.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 14 mm (between 10 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Dull grey-brown to ochre cap; Stem often crooked to one side and embedded in white 'sock' sheathing ring; violet flesh in the top of the stem; gills distant, buff with a lilac tinge, becoming rusty with age

Cortinarius torvus is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cortinarius torvus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cortinarius torvus in the forest of Rambouillet



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