Cortinarius Fr. subgen. Cortinarius sect. Cortinarius

Harrower, Emma, Bougher, Neale L., Winterbottom, Caitlin, Henkel, Terry W., Horak, Egon & Matheny, P. Brandon, 2015, New species in CortinariussectionCortinarius (Agaricales) from the Americas and Australasia, MycoKeys 11, pp. 1-21 : 4-5

Taxon classification Fungi Agaricales Cortinariaceae

Cortinarius Fr. subgen. Cortinarius sect. Cortinarius

Cortinarius Fr. subgen. Cortinarius sect. Cortinarius Synonyms: Agaricus (ser. Cortinaria) trib. Inoloma Fr.: Fr. 1821: 217. - Agaricus subgen. Inoloma (Fr.: Fr.) Loudon 1836: 1000. - Cortinarius Fr. 1836 trib. Inoloma (Fr.: Fr.) Fr. 1836: 279. - Inoloma (Fr.: Fr.) Wünsche 1877: 87. - Type species: Cortinarius violaceus (L.:Fr.) Gray.

Type species.

Cortinarius violaceus (L.:Fr.) Gray

Basidiomata tricholomatoid, deep violet; pileus squamose to tomentose, rarely greasy, then simply innately fibrillose; KOH+ red; basidiospores subglobose, ellipsoid to amygdaliform, weakly to strongly verrucose, with suprahilar plage (may only be visible in SEM); pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present; caulocystidia present or usually absent; pileipellis a trichoderm of hyphae (6-22 µm wide) or rarely an ixocutis with gelatinized hyphae (2-11 µm wide); pigment vacuolar and soluble in water, violet often turning brownish in age.

Key to species of Cortinarius sect. Cortinarius