Semi-hairy webcap (Cortinarius hemitrichus)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs)
- Genus: Cortinarius (Webcap)
- Species: Cortinarius hemitrichus (Semi-hairy webcap)
Description: A hat with a diameter of 3-4 cm, at first conical, often with a sharp apex, whitish, from hairy scales, with a whitish veil, then convex, tuberous, prostrate, with a lowered edge, often retaining a sharp tubercle, hygrophane, dark brown, brown -brown, with whitish gray-yellow villi, which makes it appear bluish-whitish, lilac-whitish, later with a lobed-wavy, lighter edge, in damp weather it is almost smooth, brown-brown or gray-brown, and whitish again when dry.
The blades are sparse, wide, notched or accreted with a denticle, at first grayish-brownish, later brownish-brown. The cobweb blanket is white.
Spore powder, rusty-brown.
Leg 4-6 (8) cm long and about 0.5 (1) cm in diameter, cylindrical, even or widened, silky-fibrous, hollow inside, first whitish, then brownish or brownish, with brown fibers and with whitish bands of the remains of the bedspread .
The pulp is thin, brownish, without a special smell.
Distribution: Semi-hairy webcap grows from mid-August to mid-September in mixed forests (spruce, birch) on soil and leaf litter, in humid places, in small groups, not often.
Similarity: Semi-hairy cobweb convergence Filmy cobweb, from which it differs in a thicker and shorter leg and place of growth.
Grade: Considered an inedible mushroom.
