Along eastern trail to Upper Russian Lake, following rainy July.
KOH- everywhere except cap
Slight raphanoid scent
Spores: thick-walled, coarsely warted
Measuring
17.99 × 9.34
15.49 × 8.89
14.42 × 8.72
14.35 × 8.72
14.41 × 8.64
14.00 × 8.22
14.88 × 8.65
13.95 × 8.41
12.95 × 8.96
13.42 × 8.92
13.95 × 8.79
14.46 × 8.91
Mild smell and taste.
Slimy cap.
Identification by Shannon Adams:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/PNWMushroomID/permalink/2578511155641028/?mibextid=Nif5oz
closest blast match to Cortinarius sp. EH46 (FJ717527) from British Columbia Harrower et al.
Collection IPL2653.
Found and collected by Robert Spence around McCall, Idaho. On the mountain, around conifers, shortly after snow melt.
Clustered, with some bases jointed, they were semi-buried on duff.
Cap white, 5 cm, bald; stipe 1.8 × 4.5 cm; gills notched, close; flesh white, unchanging. Spores elliptic, inequilateral, some with a strangulation near the apex, finely verrucose. (10.20-10.32) x (5.3-5.7).
Exsiccata brownish with silver colors.