Danks, M., Lebel, T. & Vernes, K. (2010), Cort short on a mountaintop - eight new species of truffle Cortinarius from sub-alpine Australia and affinities to sections within the genus. Persoonia 24: 113, fig. 2a, 3, 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Typus: M. Danks K. Vernes T. Cooper & S. Steinhart MD163 (MEL2331642) (holotypus hic designatus), Australia, New South Wales, Armidale, Newholme Field Station, Plot PA4, 1 July 2008."

• Text: DNA sequences: from holotype: GenBank GQ890312 (ITS).
• Text: identifier: MB 515235
• Etymology: "Name refers to the metallic sheen and silvery-violet colour of the sporocarps (Gk.: argyrionus = silvery violet)."

AusFungi (2019), AusFungi 21 Jan. 2019: - FungI [secondary reference]

Liimatainen, K., Kim, J.T., Pokorny, L., Kirk, P.M., Dentinger, B., Niskanen, T. (23 February 2022), Taming the beast: a revised classification of Cortinariaceae based on genomic data. Fungal Diversity 112: 157 [basionym]

basionym of: Thaxterogaster argyrionus (Danks, T.Lebel & Vernes) Niskanen & Liimat. legitimate

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