Cortinarius infractus    (Pers.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Bitter Webcap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Cortinariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Cortinarieae [sub-genus:Phlegmacium]  

synonyms: Phlegmacium infractum 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Cortinarius anfractus)  

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of  Cortinarius infractus
photo gallery of  Cortinarius infractus potential confusions with  Cortinarius infractus toxicity of Cortinarius infractus genus Cortinarius  

The cap is grey-brown to olive-brown, dull purple or ochre. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is very bitter; the odour is weak, of radish; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are adnate, distant . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on a rather acid or calcareous soil, with beech, oak, spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 6 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : cap surface becomes golden yellow when in contact with TL4; flesh reacts to bright blue when in contact with Gaïac.

Distinctive features : olive-brown colour; top of stem washed with blue, paler than cap; pale grey cortina; bitter taste

Cortinarius infractus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cortinarius infractus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cortinarius infractus in the forest of Rambouillet



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