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nouna cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrilstype of:
Definition that contains cortina
- partial veil membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap
- genus cortinarius the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils)
- gymnopilus validipes a poisonous fungus with a dry cap and a cortina that does not leave much of a ring on the robust stalk
- gymnopilus ventricosus a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk
- cortinarius the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils)