Gasparini, B. (2007), Genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium in Tasmania. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 189, fig. 17 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "HOLOTYPE: Australia, Tasmania, Mt Wellington, Jackson's Bend, G. Gates, 25 Jan 1999, HO 511416."

• Etymology: "From Latin austro, from the south, vaginatus, sheathed, a southern species similar to Cortinarius vaginatus M.M.Moser et E.Horak."

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 austrovaginatus (Gasparini) Niskanen & Liimat. legitimate

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