Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Introduction to the Macrofungi. Photograph Currently no image blå lökspindling cortinarius calochrous available for this taxon. Enter the E-Flora photo gallery. Species Information Summary: Subgenus Phlegmacium.
Features include a glutinous, yellowish to ochraceous brown cap with darker appressed scales in the center, very pale lilac gills that soon become grayish brown, a grayish white stem with a marginate bulb, yellowish universal veil, conifer forest habitat, rusty brown spore deposit, almond-shaped to lemon-shaped spores, and KOH reaction.
Cortinarius calochrous or Cortinarius callochrous is a complex of taxonomically difficult taxa some of the names have been spelled callochrous, but here only the spelling calochrous is used. MycoBank, accessed Jul 21,gave the current name as Cortinarius calochrous var.
Moser Nezdojm. Bojantchev 2 said in that C. An explanation follows. In seven new species close to C. Later the same year two further species were described including Cortinarius piceae Froslev, T. In the description of that species they say that it corresponds to the taxon most often treated as Cortinarius calochrous var.
They chose a new type rather than just a new name, in part because they suspected that the original description of Phlegmacium calochroum var. Moser covered C. They say it is "characterized by the warmly yellow colours on the pileus, which becomes darker brownish yellow, very pale violaceous colours of the lamellae, a pale stipe, and a brownish alkaline reaction on the pileus and a negative reaction on the bulbipellis".
It is "separated from most other co-occurring calochroid species by the thoroughly coloured pileus including the margin and the non-pink alkaline reaction of bulbipellis and pileus". Froslev 2. The Brandrud 1 description given here is that from Brandrud of Cortinarius callochrous subsp.
Brandrud 1 also describes two other varieties of Cortinarius calochrous subsp. Froslev 2 elevate var. Moser M. Cortinarius coniferarum M. Moser Moenne-Locc. Gills: crowded; very pale lilac, almost grayish white, soon grayish brown the bluish tinge soon fadingBrandrudcrowded; pale violaceous to almost gray, soon ocher -violaceousFroslev 2 who also refer to the gills as " almost colourless"faintly violaceous gray Knudsen Stem: cm x 0.
The Harrower 1 study has a BC specimen 33 which is identified as Cortinarius piceae. Kernaghan 1 report subsp.