''Phlegmacium flavivelatum'' is a species of fungus in the family Cortinariaceae.

Taxonomy

It was originally described in 2014 by the mycologists Ilkka Kytövuori, Kare Liimatainen and Tuula Niskanen who classified it as ''Cortinarius flavivelatus.'' It was placed in the (

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''Phlegmacium'') of the large mushroom genus '' Cortinarius''. In 2022 the species was transferred from ''Cortinarius'' and reclassified as ''Phlegmacium flavivelatum'' based on genomic data.

Etymology

The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''flavivelatum'' (originally ''flavivelatus)'' refers to the yellow colour of the universal veil.

Habitat and distribution

Known only from boreal coniferous forests of

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Similar species

The species is closely related to ''

Phlegmacium pini ''Phlegmacium'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cortinariaceae. Taxonomy The genus was created in 1877 by the German mycologist Friedrich Otto Wünsche based on the earlier 1821 classification of the ''Agaricus'' tribe ''Phlegmacium'' b ...

'', which differs by having a white universal veil and larger spores.

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