closest blast match to Cortinarius sp. EH46 (FJ717527) from British Columbia Harrower et al.
Collection IPL2653.
Found and collected by Robert Spence around McCall, Idaho. On the mountain, around conifers, shortly after snow melt.
Clustered, with some bases jointed, they were semi-buried on duff.
Cap white, 5 cm, bald; stipe 1.8 × 4.5 cm; gills notched, close; flesh white, unchanging. Spores elliptic, inequilateral, some with a strangulation near the apex, finely verrucose. (10.20-10.32) x (5.3-5.7).
Exsiccata brownish with silver colors.
Growing in duff
cap 3.5 cm
Elevation: 84 m
Spores light brown
03961 WF23-0181
Thaxterogaster corrugis
DNA - ITS - Nanopore
match to type
DNA looks wrong