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Cortinarius
Sign in to savethumb|Cortinarius violaceus|C. violaceus
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyCortinariaceae
Habitatmarine
Observations12,495
Observations recorded1,005,398
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25,503
- With media
- 31,208
- Family
- Cortinariaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, ECOSUR, UT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Research
405 papers- The genus Cortinarius should not (yet) be split.IMA fungus · 2024
- Two new Cortinarius species in subgenus Leprocybe from Southwest China.PeerJ · 2024
- Cortinarius section Thaumasti in South American Nothofagaceae forests.Mycologia · 2020
- Cortinarius spilomeoalpinus (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) a new alpine species of sect. Spilomei from South-Tyrolean Dryas octopetala habitats.Fungal systematics and evolution · 2025
- Nor-guanacastepene pigments from the Chilean mushroom Cortinarius pyromyxa.Phytochemistry · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cortinariaceae
- Image
- Cortinarius violaceus 02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cortinarius
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Cortinarius
- topic's main category
- Category:Cortinarius
- taxonomic type
- Cortinarius violaceus
- taxon author citation
- (Pers.) Gray
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Selected species
- Description
- Toxicity
- Uses
- Infrageneric classification
- References
thumb|Cortinarius violaceus|C. violaceus
Cortinarius is a globally distributed genus of fungus in the family Cortinariaceae. Its members are commonly known by the names cortinar and webcap. It is suspected to be the largest genus of agarics, containing over 2,700 widespread species.
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