Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 29708

Fungus name: Cortinarius cf. hinnuleus var. minutalis J. Favre

Substrate: Soil and Duff

Year of collection (y-m-d): 2016-07-24

Map coordinates: 56.1750°N, 126.7000°W

Collector: Berch, S.

Determiner: Ammirati, J.; Liimatainen, K.

Collection location: Sustut Provincial Park and Protected Area, B.C.

Remarks: on ground with Salix stolonifera Coville; field collection 30; clustered; cap brown, silky fibrous; stem brown; ring - thicker more fibrous cortina; see field collection 17; Ammirati says "The C. hinnuleus complex is still in need of careful study but your sequence data places your collections 17, 30, 33, 34, 37 close to C. hinnuleus var. minutalis according to a recent e-mail from Kare. This taxon can have a strong earthy odor, which you described as potato-like in field collection 17. Morphologically your collections are similar except for 30 which has a silky fibrillose pileus surface and a rather different aspect, together with somewhat smaller, more subgloboid basidiospores. In general, collection 17, 33, 34, 37, while morphologically similar to C. hinnuleus var. minatulis, have somewhat larger spores than this taxon. In Europe this is an alpine and arctic taxon with Salix. "

Gene bank accession data: MG786238