Cortinarius flexipes

Cortinarius flexipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Cortinariaceae
Genus:	Cortinarius
Species:	Cortinarius flexipes

Cortinarius flexipes
Mycological characteristics
	gills on hymenium
	cap is umbonate
	hymenium is adnate
	stipe has a cortina
	spore print is reddish-brown
	ecology is mycorrhizal
	edibility: unknown

Cortinarius flexipes is a fungus, specifically a mushroom, a small brown species in the genus Cortinarius. It is commonly known as the Pelargonium webcap because of its unusual smell of Pelargonium (the household "geranium").

This species of mushroom is found in Europe and North America.

This mushroom is hygrophanous, and belongs to the Telamonia group, being thin-fleshed and having a dry cap and stem.

Synonomy

Cortinarius paleaceus (Weinm.) Fr. and Cortinarius paleiferus Svrek (sometimes written C. paleifer^[1] ) have commonly been identified in Europe as separate species.^[1][2][3] C. paleiferus is defined as having more widely spaced gills, and has a pale violet mycelium at the base of the stem. Now these types are combined into one species and considered to be only varieties of C. flexipes.^[4]

Description

Cortinarius flexipes cap is up to 3 cm. It is dark brown but becoming pale fawn on drying, with white hair-like scales especially near the edge. It is more or less pointed in the centre.
The stipe is up to about 7 cm and fibrous, with white bands of veil remnants.
Cortinarius flexipes has the smell of Pelargonium (household geranium).

See also

Fungi portal

• List of Cortinarius species

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Courtecuisse, R. & Duhem, B. (1994) "Guide des champignons de France et d'Europe" Delachaux et Niestlé ISBN 2-603-00953-2, also available in English.
2. ^ Meinhard Moser, translated by Simon Plant: Keys to Agarics and Boleti (Roger Phillips 1983) ISBN 0-9508486-0-3
3. ^ See also the entry in Index Fungorum for the current name and synonyms.
4. ^ A. Ortega & F. Esteve-Raventós "Taxonomic studies on Iberian Cortinarius: Some Telamonia species with Pelargonium smell and comments on C. sertipes f. contrarius Österreichische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde, 2003 (No. 12) 1-11, see abstract.

External links

• “Cortinarius flexipes” by Robert Sasata, Healing-Mushrooms.net, March, 2008.