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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Cortinarius laniger is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Pinopsida
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Cortinarius laniger Pries, Epicr. Myc. 292. 1838
Pileus fleshy, campanulate-convex to convex-plane, obtuse or obsoletely subumbonate, 4-11 cm. broad; surface at first hoary-canescent or with appressed superficial silky-white fibrils, at length glabrous, scarcely hygrophanous, at first chestnut (R) to testaceous (R), varying to paler shades, even; margin whitish-silky; context rather compact, thick, especially on the disk, pallid but usually tinged testaceous (R), the odor not prominent in American form; lamellae adnate, becoming emarginate, at first close to crowded, later spuriously subdistant because of the less evident shorter gills, moderately broad, 5-9. mm., at first duskybrown, then ferruginous (R) to tawny (R) or ochraceous-tawny (R) ; stipe clavate to clavatebulbous or at length elongate-subequal, stout, 8-10 cm. long, 10-20 mm. thick, solid or at length spongy within, soon hollowed by grubs, whitish within, tomentose on the enlarged base, the tomentum continuous upward, but thinner and villose, at length frequently leaving whitish zones on the middle and below; cortina rather copious; spores ellipsoid, almost smooth, 8-11 X 5-6 /*, variable in size, rusty-brown under the microscope.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: Under conifers, in the northern forests, mostly in the mountains.
Distribution: New York to Michigan; Colorado, Oregon and Washington; also in Europe.