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Panaeolus fimicola

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Family
  
Bolbitiaceae

Scientific name
  
Panaeolus fimicola

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Genus
  
Panaeolus

Phylum
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Panaeolus fimicola Shroomery Panaeolus fimicola

Similar
  
Panaeolus, Panaeolus olivaceus, Panaeolus cinctulus, Gymnopilus luteus, Gymnopilus luteofolius

Panaeolus fimicola is a widespread but seldom identified "little brown mushroom" which sometimes contains small amounts of the hallucinogen psilocybin. Panaeolis ater is a synonym.

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Description

Panaeolus fimicola Shroomery Panaeolus fimicola

  • Cap: (1)1.5— 3.5(4) cm, Campanulate then convex to plane, obtuse, dingy gray to blackish, often with reddish or hazel tones, hygrophanous, pallid grey to yellowish when dry, smooth, with a narrow brown marginal band, slightly striate at the margin when moist. Flesh thin and grayish.
  • Gills: Adnate, close to crowded, at first gray-olivacous, becoming mottled and darkening to black with age, edges remaining whitish.
  • Spores: Blackish gray.
  • Stipe: (4)6 — 8(10) cm x 1 — 2(3) mm, equal, slender, slightly enlarging at the base, hollow, fragile, dingy white to clay, becoming brownish towards the base in age, smooth, white-pruinose at the apex, obsoletely slightly silky-striate, ring absent. Flesh is dirty ochraceous-buff; fragile.
  • Taste: Not distinctive.
  • Odor: Not distinctive.
  • Microscopic features: Spores 10.8 — 14.2 X 6.9—9.5, ellipsoid or lemon shaped, basidia 4 spored. Gill edge cystidia fusiform, typically with long necks, gill face cystidia absent.

    • Habitat and formation

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    Panaeolus fimicola can be found growing solitary to scattered in soil or dung, fertilized lawns and other grassy places, late spring to mid-fall. It is widespread and common across the Americas, as well as Europe and Africa. It has also been found in Turkey.

    Panaeolus fimicola Panaeolus fimicola Turf Mottlegill identification


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    References

    Panaeolus fimicola Wikipedia
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