medium agaric, growing on the ground, with a rusty to ochre-brown spore print. Pileus brown, viscid, at least initially with felty or fibrillose scales. Lamellae adnate. Stipe central. Partial veil remnants a ring zone or absent. Spores yellow-brown, warty; plage absent; germ pore absent. Cheilocystidia absent. Lamellar trama regular. Pileipellis a cutis. Clamp connections present.

Similar to other Cortinarius species except for dense scales on the pileus (at least initially) and the absent or very sparse partial veil. Similar pileus scales can be present in Cortinarius morphogroup Rozites, but members of this group have an annulus. The pileus scales can also resemble those in Amanita, but that genus usually has a white (and never ochre) spore print.

Several undescribed species (some recorded as Cuphocybe). Keyed out separately due to the strongly squamulose pileus surface.

Vic. and Tas.

In native forests, mainly cool-temperate rainforest.

On the ground.

Ectomycorrhizal.

Fuhrer, B. (2005), A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Bloomings Books, Hawthorn. [Description and Illustration of unnamed species of Cortinarius morphogroup Cuphocybe (as Cuphocybe sp.)]

Fuhrer, B. & Robinson, R. (1992), Rainforest Fungi of Tasmania and South-east Australia. CSIRO Press, East Melbourne. [Illustration of unnamed species of Cortinarius morphogroup Cuphocybe (as Cuphocybe sp.)]