Cap   3—8 cm wide, persistently convex but the centre becomingdepressed,  violaceous, dry,  finely fibrillose-squamulose all over,  thescales more or less suberect.  —  Gills emarginate,  sinuate-adnate,subdistant,  L =  24-40,  1 =  7-14,  intensely and dark violaceous,almost violet-black,  from spores becoming rusty dusted,  5-14 mmwide,  slowly becoming very broad.  -  Stem 4-12 cm long, 4-11 mmthick at the apex,  6-20 mm at the subclavate base,  cortina paleviolaceous,  slightly developed,  basal mycelium pale violaceous.  -Context 4-6 mm thick in the centre of the pileus,  dry,  firm,  vio-laceous. -  Smell slight,  reminiscent of radish.Spores (9.2)-10-11.8-(14)  x 6.3-8 um,  mean 10.8 x 7.1, Q =1,53, broadly elliptic, dark yellow-brown,  fine to roughly verrucose,some spores showing a more or less distinct plage.  Basidia   4-spored,  35-40 X 8-10 (xm,  sterigmata 2-4 fxm.  -  Cheilocystidiafrequent,  large, lanceolate to bottleshaped and with ventricose basalpart,  50—80—140 X 10—25 \xm,  sometimes with amorphous excretionat the top. -  Pleurocystidia relatively scarce for the group,  broadlylanceolate or ventricose-fusoid,  or bottleshaped,  40-100   x   10-18(20)  ^im.  -  Epicuticular   hyphae   10-14 \xm thick,  with browncontent in KOH, the fascicules of hairs on the surface formed fromseptate,    10-18 |im   thick,    bluntly   ending   hyphae;    tramapseudoparenchymatous,  hyaline,  subhymenium   subcellular,  ele-ments 15-30 x 15-20 ^m;  hyphae of the stem 6-10 [im,  granulöseincrusted in KOH,  hyphae of the cortina 4-8 [xm, some with browncontent in KOH. -  Clamp connections present

Based on literature, the species status is unknown and the only recorded sighting was in Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo. Malaysia.

NORTH BORNEO: Mt. Kinabalu, 1700 m

The species itself only found recorded at Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo Island of Malaysia. The only description/study was done by Meinhard Michael Moser in 1986. Apart from that, the species is relatively unknown.

Mount Kinabalu with an elevation of 1700 m. Habitat. - In humus, between litter.

Moser M (1986). “Cortinarius Fr. subgen. Cortinarius in the SW-Pacific area”.Sydowia. 39: 138–47.