22/Sep/2026 (🌅🌇), 4:45 PM
Soodla forest, Raudoja, Harju, Eesti
Mixed pine dominant forest, under Pinus sylvestris, deep in moss
59°23'13.9"N 25°23'40.4"E
🌡️ 15°C ⛅ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 17 km/h
Original Instagram postCortinarius flexipes
Pelargonium webcap
- Scientific identification
- Cortinarius flexipes (Pers.) Fr.
- Family
- Cortinariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Cortinarius
Names across languages
- English: Pelargonium webcap
- German: Duftender Gürtelfuß
- Finnish: Kapeaseitikki
- Estonian: Pelargooni-vöödik
- Russian: Паутинник пленчатый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-22.
Hymenium
Gills moderately crowded; grey-buff to brown when young, rusty to dark brown with maturity; edges usually paler
Cap
Conical to bell-shaped when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat; hygrophanous; dark brown to violet-brown when moist, fading grey-brown to pale fawn when dry; densely covered with fine whitish veil scales
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, often curved; grey-brown with a violet flush near apex; conspicuous white fibrillose veil remnants forming incomplete bands or zones; cortina ephemeral
Spore print
Spore print rusty brown
Ecology
Mycorrhizal mainly with spruce and pine; moist coniferous and mixed forests, among mosses and Sphagnum; scattered to gregariously; summer to autumn
Edibility
Considered inedible
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~4–8 cm long and ~0.3–0.7 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–4 cm
Flesh
Pale brown to ochraceous, thin, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH negative
Odour
Distinctive sweet-aromatic geranium-like
Taste
Mild, lightly unpleasant
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid, finely to moderately verrucose, yellow-ochre to rusty-brown, ~7–9 × 4.5–6 µm; basidia 4-spored; pileipellis filamentous with clamp connections
Overview
Small hygrophanous webcap with white veil scales and distinctive Pelargonium scent
1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 300 (’1836-1838′).
Field encounters
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