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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Cortinarius saginus is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Cortinarius saginus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 260. 1838
Agaricus saginus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 226. 1821.
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex-expanded to plane, 9-14 cm. broad; surface viscid, oliveocher (R) to yellow-ocher (R), becoming honey-yellow (R) to tawny-ocher (R), the disk darker, slightly rusty-streaked, glabrous, even; context whitish, lutescent, the odor and taste mild; lamellae rounded behind, then subdecurrent, broad, 10-12 mm. or more, crowded, pallid but sordid, soon lutescent, ocher-yellow to cinnamon; stipe at first rounded-bulbous, then very elongate, stout, 9-13 cm. long, 10-12 mm. thick, the base thicker, finally subequal above the disappearing bulb, stuffed, dingy-pallid, soon markedly lutescent, streaked with fibrils of copious cortina which is superior, the bulb rarely subemarginate ; spores almond-shaped, inequilateral, rough-punctate, 9-11 (-12) X 5.5-6.5 (-7) fi, ochraceous-rusty under the microscope.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: In mountain forests, under conifers.
Distribution: Washington; also in Europe.