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Growing in oak woodland on limestone. Brown spores so I thought it may be another nameless inocybe but the spores were warty rather than smooth. Smelt a bit like a hebeloma but doesn't look like it. ??
Thanks.
You're absolutely right, the warty spores rule out Inocybe and the subglobose spores don't fit well with Hebeloma.
.....Which unfortunately leaves us with Cortinarius. The macro shot of the gills confirms this (Cortinarius species don't have cheilocystidia, unlike the other two genera which do. These cheilocystidia can be seen in a good macro pic as minutely serrate gill edges)
The spore shape is quite distinct, even for Cortinarius and one could be tempted to file this specimen with the 'anomalus-group' but the colours are a bit off and the cap looks super smooth to me - might it be quite viscid when wet? If you still have the specimen you can test this by putting some water on the cap and waiting a while before feeling it.
If I'm right it should be Cortinarius delibutus...