Birch Webcap - Cortinarius triumphans
Associated with birch and other deciduous trees. The golden-yellow cap is slimy or sticky and radially fibrillose, the gills are pale greyish-white. The stem is whitish, with the reminas of the veil forming several orange brown ragged stripes or girdles.
Other yellow Cortinarius
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Identification is very difficult, requiring microscopic examination. If you have not done this or if the specimen has not been examined by an expert, please submit your record as genus only (Cortinarius); and note habitat
Woodlands with birch and other deciduous trees
August to October in Britain and Ireland.
Widespread but infrequent in Britain.
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Lostash
St Bernards Abbey
19 September 2015
Lostash
St Bernards Abbey
19 September 2015
Lostash
St Bernards Abbey
19 September 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Birch Webcap
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Cortinariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 19/09/2015 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 19/09/2015 (Watson, Ashley)
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