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Gymnopilus viridans

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Cortinariaceae

Scientific name
  
Gymnopilus viridans

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Gymnopilus

Rank
  
Species

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Gymnopilus braendlei, Gymnopilus validipes, Gymnopilus luteoviridis, Psilocybe graveolens, Psilocybe plutonia

Gymnopilus viridans is a rarely documented mushroom. It contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. The last known collection is from Washington, United States (1912).

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Description

  • Pileus: — 8 cm, thick, convex with a large umbo, ochraceous, dry, with conspicuous light reddish brown scales that are sparse but become denser toward the center; flesh firm, becoming green-spotted where handled.
  • Gills: Adnate, broad, crowded, edges undulate, dingy brown to rusty brown with age.
  • Spore Print: Rusty brown.
  • Stipe: — 6 cm x 2 cm thick, enlarging below, solid, firm, colored like the cap,
  • Microscopic features: Spores (6)7 x 8.5 x (3.5)4 — 5 µm ellipsoid, not dextrinoid, minutely verruculose, obliquely pointed at one end, no germ pore. Pleurocystidia absent, Cheilocystidia 20 — 26 x 5 — 7 µm, caulocystidia 35 — 43 x 4 — 7 µm, clamp connections present.

    • Habitat and formation

    Gymnopilus viridans is found growing cespitose on coniferous wood from June to November.

    References

    Gymnopilus viridans Wikipedia
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