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is 4 to 6 centimetres (2 to 2 in) long and 0.2 to 0.3 centimetres (0.08 to 0.1 in) thick. The stems are cylindrical. When young, they are covered with silky, white fibrils, though they mature to yellowish brown. The
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species as "ecologically important in supporting the growth of plants, particularly trees such as oak, beech, birch and pine" and playing "a key role in the carbon cycling of woodlands and providing nitrogen to trees".
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is pale, consisting of more or less parallel hyphae, 5 μm wide, without encrustations. Lower cells in the pileipellis are 19 to 44 by 10 to 20 μm. Some of these hyphae are encrusted with zebra-like incrustations.
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that are 0.7 to 1.5 centimetres (0.3 to 0.6 in) wide. They are hemispherical, maturing to a low convex or almost flat. The caps are red brown to dark red brown, and
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in the flesh of the gills are yellowish brown, fairly strongly encrusted with zebra-striped encrustations. The surface of the
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in 2020. In a year-end round-up, Kew scientists selected ten highlights, one of which was six newly described
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are 25 to 34 by 7 to 10 μm. They are club-shaped, with four
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382:Microscopic characteristics
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397:(μm). The spores are
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249:Phylogenetic analysis
233:Black Wood of Rannoch
216:Cortinarius scoticus
189:little brown mushroom
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515:Cortinarius scoticus
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316:C. ainsworthii
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300:C. britannicus
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442:looks like
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342:Description
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281:Cortinarius
277:Kew Gardens
253:Cortinarius
205:Kew Gardens
138:Cortinarius
753:Categories
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245:holotype
211:Taxonomy
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