First person to use this name on MO: Ron Pastorino
Editors: walt sturgeon, Eddee, Joseph D. Cohen
Observations of:
this name (164)
this taxon, any name (169)
other taxa, this taxon proposed (36)
Rank: Species
Status: Accepted
Name: Cortinarius semisanguineus
Author: (Fr.) Gill.
Citation: Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 484 (1876) [1878]
Deprecated Synonyms: Dermocybe semisanguinea
Misspellings: Dermocybe semisanguineus, Cortinarius semisanguinius
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cortinariaceae
Genus: Cortinarius
Cap width 1 to 2 in (2.5 cm to 5 cm)Bell shaped to convex or nearly flat usually with an umbo, ochraceous yellow to cinnamon brown paler toward the margin surface; smooth fibrillose silky rarely breaking up into fine scales
Flesh yellowish white to ochraceous, odor not distinctive, taste mild or bitter
Gills Adnate to notched crowded rusty red to blood red.
Stalk length 1 to 2 1/2 in 2.5 to 6.5 cm more or less equal pale yellow to tawny surface fibrillose partial veil (cortina) sometimes leaving an evanescent web like ring zone on the upper stalk.
Spores 6 to 8 × 3 to 4.5 microns elliptical surface minutely roughened pale brown non amyloid. Spore print is a rusty brown;