| Cortinarius elegantissimus Hry |
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New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Cortinariaceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Cortinarieae [sub-genus:Phlegmacium] synonyms: Phlegmacium elegantissimus, Phlegmacium auroturbinatus, Cortinarius auroturbinatus, Cortinarius aurantioturbinatus, Cortinarius sulfurinus ss.Rick. edibility : discard
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The cap is rusty orange to sulphur yellow (towards margin), with greenish tones, convex then expanded; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, rather viscid. The stem is yellow, more reddish towards base, bulbous and marginate, with a ring zone, with a cortina. The flesh is whitish pale, slightly blue in apex of stem, yellowish at its base; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant, of clover; its texture is fibrous. The gills are bright yellow then olivaceous, then rusty red, free to adnate . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in well-lit deciduous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, under beech mostly. The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Chemical tests : flesh coloured in red-brown in contact of potash, especially on cap surface. Distinctive features : large bright orange-yellow species; stem with a ridged bulb; pallid flesh, slightly lilac-blue at the apex of the stem; with beech on calcareous soils Cortinarius elegantissimus is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking . | ||
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