Gasparini, B. (2007), Genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium in Tasmania. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 205 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "HOLOTYPE: Australia, Tasmania, Lake St Clair, G. Gates, 20 Apr 2002, HO 522426 ... [isotype] PHNA20420A0 [personal herbarium of B. Gasparini].”

• Etymology: "From Latin australis, southern, in contraposition to Cortinarius occidentalis Smith from the Northern Hemisphere which belongs to the same group."

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: 158 [basionym]

basionym of: Thaxterogaster australis (Gasparini) Niskanen & Liimat. legitimate

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