Cortinarius alboviolaceus

pearly webcap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2023-09-10.

Gills, initially pale lilac, becoming brown as spores mature, moderately spaced

Conical to umbonate when young, flattening with age, surface dry, silky, and smooth, color silvery-violet, often fading to pale ochre with age

Adnate to adnexed

clavate, with a slightly bulbous base, silvery-violet, with remnants of a white universal veil, partial veil is white and cobwebby

Spore print rusty brown

Mycorrhizal, with hardwood trees (beech and birch), deciduous and mixed forests, summer and autumn

Not recommended due to conflicting reports

Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 4–10 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm thick

Cap 3–9 cm in diameter

KOH reaction not distinctive

Mild

Indistinct

Spores broadly ellipsoid, finely warty, measuring 7.5–9 × 4.5–6 µm, inamyloid, basidia 4-spored

A medium-sized webcap mushroom characterized by its silky, lilac-white cap and stipe and rusty brown spore print

1835). Enum. Plant. Galic. Bucow. (Breslau): 162.

Raudoja, Harju County

Mixed forest, within birches, in decaying leaves

59°22'42.7"N 25°29'13.0"E

🔆 Mild overcast, shaded spot