Cortinarius (Pers.) Gray

  • Filed As

    Agaricaceae
    Cortinarius

  • Collector(s)

    R. E. Halling 9148 with N. Fechner, K. Querengasser, 04 Jun 2009

  • Location

    Australia. Queensland. Great Sandy National Park, Fraser Island, track from Central Station to Lake Birrabeen.

  • Habitat

    Sclerophyll. Eucalyptus pilularis, Syncarpia. Gregarious. On sand.

  • Description

    Pileus 3-9 cm broad, convex to plane, viscid-glutinous but soon dry, hygrophanous, glabrous to obscurely matted fibrillose, brown (6E8) to orange brown (5B8,7). Flesh pale yellow to greenish yellow to brownish yellow, unchanging, with mild odor and taste. Lamellae adnexed, close, yellow (3A5,4) to yellowish orange (4B7), soon rusty brown, with even to uneven edges. Stipe 6.5-10.5 cm long, strict or slightly curved, subequal, becoming slightly broader in midportion, then tapering to an obtuse point, dry pale greenish yellow to greenish yellow, fibrillose and satiny shiny, with pale greenish yellow cortina soon collapsing and not leaving well-defined remnants, deeply rooting in sand, with interior pale greenish yellow to brownish yellow, pithy, becoming hollow.

  • Specimen Notes

    Duplicate in BRI

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 2049761

    Occurrence ID: c8a29568-413d-446a-8f54-506f1efaabce

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  • Region

    Oceania

  • Country

    Australia

  • State/Province

    Queensland

  • Locality

    Great Sandy National Park, Fraser Island, track from Central Station to Lake Birrabeen.

  • Elevation

    Alt. 138 m. (453 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    -25.4952, 153.065

  • Georeferencing Method

    GPS.

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

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