| Family
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Cortinariacaea |
| Accession Number
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| Genus
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Cortinarius |
| Species
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cf bovinus |
| Species Author
|
Fr. |
| Date
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26/10/2002 |
| Morphological Description
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The gills are unequal, and uniform in color. They are ventricose, and adenate from a decurved cap. The cap is umbonate, with a darker centre and a uniform, lighter edge. The partial veil is only wispy hairs on the upper surface of the stipe. The universal veil has degenerated into tiny fibres that coat the stipe up to the annulus and over the cap. The cap is NOT vicid and was only mildly hygrophanous. Microscopic viewing of the cap on dried specimen made the universal veil remenants more prominent as the color was different. The stipe is clavate to ventricose fusiform, and has visible lighter striations along its length (universal veil remenant). The cap cuticle had distinct [][][] cells making it up, supporting the non-vicid nature of the cap. The dried specimen cap showed a scale-like pattern.
Morphologically similar to Cortinarius furvolaesus or Cortinarius brunneus, but genetically distinct. |
| Collector
|
Richard Cooper |
| Number
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RC 1 |
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Cap shape when mature |
1 conical/bell shape |
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Cap shape in center |
1 raised |
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Cap shape from above |
1 circular-even if wavy |
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color of top surface |
8 tan - light brown |
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Secondary color top surface |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
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Cap color with age |
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit |
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Cap stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Cap width |
3.4 |
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Cap surface texture |
2 smooth |
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Cap stickiness |
1 dry |
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Cap has concentric zones of color |
No |
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Cap stalk easily part |
No |
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Cap hygrophanous |
Yes |
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Cap flesh color |
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit |
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Cap flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
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Flesh toughness |
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile |
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Flesh fracture |
2 irregular tear |
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Cap cross section |
3 incurved |
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Cap margin surface |
2 smooth |
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Cap edge |
1 smooth |
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Stipe shape |
2 clavate |
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Stipe core |
1 solid |
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Stipe position |
1 central |
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Stipe flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
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Stipe flesh toughness |
3 tough - does not tear easily |
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Stipe flesh fracture |
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Stipe flesh color |
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit |
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Stipe flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Stipe primary color |
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit |
|
Stipe secondary color |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Stipe stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Stipe surface texture |
8 fibrilose |
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Stipe width |
|
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Stipe length |
59 |
|
Gill attachment |
1 adnate |
|
Gill collarium |
|
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Gill sawtooth edge |
No |
|
Hymenium color when young |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Hymenium color when mature |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Hymenium stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Gills break from cap |
No |
|
Gills deliquescent |
No |
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Gills mottled face |
No |
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Gills secede from stalk |
|
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Gills waxy feel |
No |
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Gills anastomosing |
|
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Gills forked |
No |
|
Ring type |
5 none |
|
Partial veil type |
1 cobwebby |
|
Ring location on stalk |
1 upper stalk |
|
Ring number |
1 single |
|
Ring color |
10 rust brown (reddish brown) |
|
Volva type |
4 indistinct |
|
Volva color |
8 tan - light brown |
|
Habit |
3 compact clumps |
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Taste |
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Smell |
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Spore print color |
8 tan - light brown |
|
Latex color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Latex stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ammonia color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction ferrous sulphate color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
| Reaction Melzer's color
|
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Reaction potassium |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
|
Spore shape |
5 pear shape |
|
Spore ornamentation |
1 smooth |
|
Spore length |
8.13 |
|
Spore width |
5.66 |
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phylum |
Basidiomycota |
|
material collected |
gilled mushroom |
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trama type |
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cap cuticle type |
distinct |
|
clamp connections |
not seen |
|
cystidia |
No |
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morphology summary |
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| Notes
|
the sample was growing in a small clump of 3 mature specimens, near fallen and rotting logs and near several living hemlock trees. |
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