محمد رضا آصف - Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection P.O. Box ۱۴۵۴, Tehran ۱۹۳۹۵, Iran E-mail: asef_iran@yahoo.com

This is the third in a series of publications on floristic studies of macrofungi of Arasbaran forests (NW. Iran). In the first paper, new species of the genus Cortinarius, subgenus Myxacium collected from Arasbaran forests, were reported for the first time in Iran. In this paper, species of the genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium are presented. Six species viz. C. fluryi, C. paracephalixus, C. pseudonapus, C. subvalidus, C. sublubricus and ‍C. vespertinus are reported for the first time for Iranian mycoflora. All species are redescribed and illustrated with photographs and drawings.

mycorrhizae, Cortinariaceae, Myxacium