Cortinarius flexipes

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").

Cortinarius flexipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Cortinariaceae
Genus:
Cortinarius
Species:
C. flexipes
Binomial name
Cortinarius flexipes
(Pers.) Fr. (1838)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus flexipes Pers. (1801)
Cortinarius flexipes
float
Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is umbonate
hymenium is adnate
stipe has a cortina
spore print is reddish-brown
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: inedible

This species of mushroom is found in Europe and North America. It is hygrophanous, and belongs to the Telamonia group, being thin-fleshed and having a dry cap and stipe.

Synonymy

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 stipe. 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 centimetres (1.2 in). 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 centimetres (2.8 in) and fibrous, with white bands of veil remnants. Fruitbodies have the smell of Pelargonium (household geranium). The species is inedible.[5]

See also

References
  1. 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 (1983). Keys to Agarics and Boleti. Roger Phillips. 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 (2003). "Taxonomic studies on Iberian Cortinarius: Some Telamonia species with Pelargonium smell and comments on C. sertipes f. contrarius". Österreichische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 12: 1–11.
  5. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 188–89. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
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