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Cortinarius rotundisporus J.B. Cleland and E. Cheel Trans & Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Australia 42: 96 (1933) |
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A beautiful mushroom, tall and graceful, with a deep indigo blue cap, lavender gills and a blue stem which becomes paler with age. |
Up to 70mm broad; deep indigo blue, becoming paler blue with a dark yellow centre; convex, becoming flatter, with a broad umbo (central raised bump), glutinous, drying smooth.
Pale lavender at first, gradually turning rusty as the spores mature; adnexed (narrowly attached to the stem); with short and long gills.
Tall and graceful, tapering upwards from a broad base 14-20mm wide to a 5-7mm apex and up to 140mm long. Blue at first,becoming paler and slightly yellowish at base. Glutinous below the veil. Partial veil glutinous, catching the mature spores as they fall, which shows as a rusty ring high up on the stem.
Spore print rusty brown.
In eucalypt forests and woodlands, sometimes in large groups.
Bougher, N & Syme, K. Fungi of Southern Australia, pp. 256-257
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