Cap coloured dark reddish to orange-brown, convex or wavy margined, smooth, very sticky. Gills grey to cinnamon brown, becoming rusty brown, adnate, close or nearly crowded. Stem white with rust sub-apical cortinal zone. It is smooth or faintly scaly below the cap, more or less equal or slightly swollen at the base, and very sticky. It has no ring. Spore print rusty reddish-brown.
Microscopic Features: The spores are ellipsoidal, measuring 12-14 x 5.5-6.5µm, and have a roughened surface.
Cortinarius mucosus on the First Nature Web site.
Cortinarius mucosus on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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