Cortinarius venetus

Pileipellis formed by a layer of hyphae arranged more or less parallel, 10 to 15 µm wide, with ochraceous intracellular pigment, numerous rounded emerging terminal ends, mostly clamped.

Lamellar edge without true cheilocystidia, but with abundant basidioliform elements up to 30 µm, partly with slightly greenish content.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, up to 35 µm long, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores subglobose to ovoid, thick- and verrucose-walled, yellow with darker warts, with a prominent more or less central apiculus, and dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2268/24.