Cortinarius obliquus

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Gills not free
Spore print tan, orange, deep ochre, yellowish olive, olive brown, rusty or cinnamon brown or deep brown
Ring usually either absent or not membranous

Growing on the ground

With a cobwebby partial veil called a cortina
Stem often much wider at the base
Spore print usually rusty brown or cinnamon brown

Not sticky anywhere
Cap not hygrophanous
Fruiting body with purple to lilac coloration

Entire fruiting body silvery lilac
Flesh white to pale lilac, not mottled
Gills usually purple, until colored rusty brown by developing spores

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 2 1/2" across
  
• Gills purple until colored rusty brown by developing spores
  
• Stalk abruptly widening to a clublike base, free of universal veil material

 

 

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