Cortinarius cinnabarinus

Suprapellis formed by a thin layer of narrow, parallel hyphae with ochraceous intracellular pigment.

Subpellis with a thick layer of very broad hyphae with short cells, also containing abundant intracellular pigment.

Cheilocystidia abundant on the lamellar edge, clavate, up to 28 µm long, strongly widened at the head, with abundant orange intracellular pigment.

Basidia cylindrical to slightly ventricose, up to 35 µm long, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to amygdaliform, thick-walled and verrucose, yellow under the microscope, with abundant darker warts, an eccentric apiculus, and dextrinoid reaction in Melzer's reagent.