Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cortinarius semisanguineus (Fries) C. H. Kauffman, Bull
Torrey Club 32 : 320. 1905.
Agaricus cinnamomeus semisanguineus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 229. 1821.
Pileus fleshy, campanulate-convex, subumbonate (varying to conic-campanulate or broadly hemispheric, often at length expanded and split on the margin), 2-6 cm. broad; surface tawnyyellow to cinnamon-yellow, silky or delicately fibrillose-scaly, sometimes shining-zoned; context dingy-yellowishwhite, rather firm, the odor and taste mild; lamellae adnate-subdecurrent, narrow, crowded, cinnabar or blood-red; stipe equal or subequal, 3-6 cm. long (longer on Sphagnum), 3-6 mm. thick, solid-fibrous, chrome-yellow to citron-yellow, fibrillose from the yellow or tawny-yellow cortina, elastic; spores ellipsoid, smooth, 5-7 X 3-4 n.
Type locality : Sweden.
Habitat: On mosses, sphagnum, etc., in low swampy woods.
Distribution: New England and Canada to Virginia and Alabama, and westward to Missouri; also in Europe.
- 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
