Family: Cortinariaceae

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This guenus are typically recognised by the presence of a cortina. The cortina is a veil silky or cobwebby fibbers which protects the gills of a young mushroom. That collapses as the cap opens in most cases, often leaving hairs on the stem which are then stain brown from the brown textured spores.

Genus: Cortinarius

Cortinarius achrous

Cortinarius alboaggregatus

Cortinarius alienatus

Cortinarius alboroseus

Cortinarius armiae

Cortinarius australiensis

Cortinarius australis

Cortinarius austrocyanites

Cortinarius bellus

Cortinarius canaria

Cortinarius cardinalis

Cortinarius carneipallidus

Cortinarius casteneodiscus

Cortinarius caryotis

Cortinarius castoreus

Cortinarius chalybeus

Cortinarius chrysma

Cortinarius collybianus

Cortinarius cremeolinus

Cortinarius cretax

Cortinarius cucumeris

Cortinarius cuphomorphus

Cortinarius cycneus

Cortinarius dysodes

Cortinarius elaiochrous

Cortinarius elaiochrous var. leontis

Cortinarius elaiops

Cortinarius exlugubris

Cortinarius icterinoides

Cortinarius ignellus

Cortinarius ignotus

Cortinarius ionomataius

Cortinarius iringa

Cortinarius indotatus

Cortinarius kioloensis

Cortinarius lachanus

Cortinarius leptospermorum

Cortinarius lubricanescens

Cortinarius luteinus

Cortinarius cf. magellanicus

Cortinarius meleagris

Cortinarius mariae

Cortinarius naphthalinus

Cortinarius olivaceoniger

Cortinarius opaculus

Cortinarius orphyx

Cortinarius papaver

Cortinarius paraoniti

Cortinarius peraureus	Cortinarius persicanus	Cortinarius persplendidus	Cortinarius phaeomyxa
Cortinarius pselioticton	Cortinarius rattinus	Cortinarius rhipiduranus	Cortinarius rotundisporus
Cortinarius rubripurpuratus	Cortinarius subcastanellus	Cortinarius suecicolor	Cortinarius taylorianus
Cortinarius tessiae	Cortinarius ursus	Cortinarius veronicae	Cortinarius viscostriatus
Cortinarius vitreopileatus	Cortinarius vinicolor

Sequestrate Fungi

These are fungi which have lost there ability to forceful eject there spores in stead they rely on insects and birds to eat and cary them off for disperse. Many are brightly coloured and found on or partly beried in the ground some still retain a week stalk but others have even lost this.

Cortinarius beeverorum

Cortinarius ohauensis

Cortinarius peraurantiacus

Cortinarius porphyroideus

Unidentified Species

The fungi below are those that I have been unable to identify beyond there genus. This likely due to me miss understanding the keys or a species that has not yet been described (named).

Cortinarius sp.

Cortinarius sp.

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