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Cortinarius austroalbidus
An Australian web-cap fungi

Cortinarius  austroalbidus
Cortinarius austroalbidus
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Fungi Cap: The Australian fungi, Cortinarius austroalbidus  has a whitecap that is silky when dry and slimy when young or wet. There will usually rusty yellow stains especially around the margins.

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 The  buff coloured gills
of Cortinarius austroalbidus  soon become bright mustard yellow  which darkens with rusty spore stain.  The gills are quite close  and are of various lengths.

 The Stem 
of austroalbidus is also white, solid in texture, tapers down slightly and has bright mustard coloured zigzagged cortina remains  towards the base.

This Australian fungi is mycorrhizal and found on the edges of eucalypt woodland in mid to late winter.

 Photographed in Forrest, Australia's Otway Ranges

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