Cortinarius mucifluus Fr. 1838

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Cortinarius mucifluus is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Ectomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
mycelium of Cortinarius mucifluus is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Pinus

Cortinarius mucifluus Fries, Ic. Hymen, pi. 148, f. 1; hyponym
1880; C. H. Kauffman, Agar. Mich. 1: 328. 1918.
Cortinarius collinitus Gill. Champ. Fr. 457. 1876. Agaricus collinitus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 248, in part. 1821.
Pileus fleshy, at the very first subglobose, then campanulate-convex, finally campanulateexpanded to plane, obtuse, 3-8 cm. broad; surface glutinous when moist, the gluten derived from the very thick gelatinous pellicle, varying in color from whitish when young to strawyellow or tawny-fulvous, sometimes stained with rusty or sulphur hues, shining when dry; margin incurved ; context pallid or stained in age with yellow or rust-color, the odor and taste slight; lamellae at first pallid or grayishwhite (cesious), then clay-colored to rusty-cinnamon, adnate to subemarginate, moderately broad, close; stipe cylindric or tapering downward, rather stout from the first, 6-12 cm. long, 7-12 mm. thick, rigid, spongy-stuffed, at the very first whitish and covered by the thick gelatinous layer of a universal veil, the veil cracking transversely, forming scaly, thick, sometimes squarrose bands of dried gluten, especially below, soon becoming discolored and then yellowish, rusty, or tawny, terminating above with the discolored cortina in the form of a collapsed ring; spores almond-shaped, inequilateral-elliptic, tuberculate, 10-13 X 6-7 m (rarely up to 14.5 m), rusty-cinnamon in mass.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: Margin of swamps.
Distribution: New England and Canada to Virginia and Minnesota; Colorado to Washington and Oregon; also in Europe.