Species

Cortinarius flexipes (Pine pelargonium webcap)

Cortinarius flexipes. Photo: (c) noah_siegel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

Cortinarius flexipes is a fungus, specifically a mushroom, a small brown species in the genus Cortinarius. It is commonly known as the Pelargonium webcap because of its unusual smell of Pelargonium (the household “geranium”).

— Wikipedia

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
  - Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
    - Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
      - Class: Agaricomycetes
        Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
        Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
        Suborder: Agaricineae
        Family: Cortinariaceae
        Genus: Cortinarius (Webcaps)
        Subgenus: Telamonia (Cortinarius subg. telamonia)
        Section: Flexipedes (Cortinarius sect. flexipedes)
        Species: Cortinarius flexipes (Pine pelargonium webcap)

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