Cortinarius bolaris (Pers.: Fr.) Fr.

Blaszki jasnokawowe do jasno cynamonowych; cienkie, słabo wykrojone do nieco zbiegających.

Trzon u góry białawożółtawy, u postawy chromowożółty z gęstymi cynobrowoczerwonymi włókienkami; 30-60 x 5-10 mm, bulwkowato zgrubiały lub równogruby, z kilkoma pierścieniowatymi skupieniami czerwonych włókienek osłony.

Miąższ białawożółtawy, z wiekiem czerwonawobrązowy; uszkodzony słabo żółknący; zapach słaby, ziemisty, smak słaby, gorzkawy.

Pileus surface dry, silky, with large, delicate, cinnabar-red appressed scales and fibrils on a whitish-yellowish background; with age becoming buff; convex to plane; 30-50 mm in diameter.

Lamellae white coffee to pale cinnamon; thin, weakly adnexed to subdecurrent.

Stipe at the apex whitish-yellowish, at the base chrome-yellow with dense cinnabar-red fibrils; 30-60 x 5-10 mm, bulblike enlarged or equal, with several ringlike rolls of red veil fibrils.

Flesh whitish-yellowish, with age reddish-brown; when injured slightly yellowing; odour weak, earthy, taste weak, bitterish.

Spore print ochraceous-brown. Spores subglobose, broadly ellipsoid, finely verrucose, 6-8 x 5-6 µm.

Common. Summer-fall. Solitary or gregarious, in forests, often under Fagus.

Similar Cortinarius rubicundulus differs in flesh intensively yellowing on injury, surface of the cap more evenly covered with silky fibrils and larger amygdaliform spores.

Inedible.