Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cortinarius fulgens Fries, Epicr. Myc. 267. 1838
Pileus firm, broadly convex to plane, 6-15 cm. or more broad; surface bright-orange to orange-fulvous, the disk orange-ferruginous, somewhat virgate-streaked, very viscid when moist, the margin incurved at first; lamellae dilute-yellow, then deep-ferruginous-orange, emarginate, broad, close, the edge entire; stipe firm, 4-7 cm. long, 15-25 mm. thick, solid, yellow, covered by the dense rusty-stained fibrils of the cortina, equal or subequal above the large, marginatedepressed bulb; spores almond-shaped, abruptly apiculate, 9-12 X 6-7 ju.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On the ground, in woods.
Distribution: New York.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill, Lee Oras Overholts, Calvin Henry Kauffman. 1932. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars), HYPODENDRUM, CORTINARIUS. North American flora. vol 10(5). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
