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PILUS convex, with a low broad umbo, dry, minutely appressed-fibrillose-scaly with pale orange (HSV30:30:100) fibrils, medium orange brown (HSV00:50:70) on the umbo and more pale orange brown (HSV25:10-15:90) toward the margin, unchanging or darkening slightly in KOH, 30-33 mm in diameter. STIPE equal down to the slightly enlarged base, white to greyish white, marked by a prominent ring or universal veil material above and with additional smaller rings below, with rings pale orange (HSV30:30:100), dry, 80 X 7 mm. LAMELLAE pale tan (HSV20:15:90), subclose, adnexed and with a small decurrent tooth, not marginate. CORTINA white, abundant. FLESH light brown (HSV10:20-30:60-70), with a nondescript mushroom odour and taste, unchanging or darkening slightly in KOH.

ID based on sequence and personal communication with Balint Dima. In mixed hardwood/conifer forest under hardwoods.

Sequence used in Enlargement of the knowledge of Cortinarius section Anomali (Agaricales, Basidiomycota): introducing three new species from China and Type studies and fourteen new North American species of Cortinarius section Anomali reveal high continental species diversity