Elegant Blue Webcap (Cortinarius rotundisporus)

Cap 70 mm, steely bluish to lilac with umbonate centre coloured dark yellowish; viscid.
Gills pallid to lilac, staining with rust-brown spores: spore print rusty brown.
These were alongside a forest walking track in a moist gully.

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Flown Kimmerling

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Gorgeous, Mark! SO envious of some of the fungi in Australia and New Zealand!! Ahhhh! Posted 6 years ago
1. Mark Ridgway
  
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  Yes it's certainly different down here. Most yet to be described of course and many that look the same as northerners are being found to be different genetically so need renaming. Posted 6 years ago

The Elegant Blue Webcap

"Cortinarius rotundisporus", also known as the elegant blue webcap, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus "Cortinarius" found in southern Australia, where it is found in eucalypt forests and rainforests. The cap of the fruit body is a steely blue colour, with a yellowish boss, and paler similarly coloured stipe.

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Similar species: Agaricales

Species identified by Mark Ridgway