Cinnamon Webcap Cortinarius (Dermocybe) cinnamomeus (L.) Gray (illustrated 50% life size) Cap 1.5โ6cm across, convex then expanded and often umbonate; olive-yellow to olive-buff, with reddish-brown tinge at centre, soon becoming bright red-brown to coppery; covered in radiating fibrils. Stem 25โ100ร3โ10mm, lemon- to chrome-yellow, becoming ringed in tawny fibrous scales below from the veil; cortina yellowish. Flesh lemon- to chrome-yellow, tinged olivaceous above the gills; taste bitter and radishy, smell faintly of radish. Gills adnate; deep lemon- to chrome-yellow at first, then deep golden to tawny or bright golden-red. Spores 6.5โ8ร4โ5ยผ, elliptical, almost smooth to minutely roughened. Spore print rust. Habitat with conifers and birch; autumn. Occasional. Suspect avoid.
