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Psilocybe fimetaria

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Scientific name
  
Psilocybe fimetaria

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Psilocybe

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Psilocybe liniformans var ameri, Psilocybe strictipes, Psilocybe silvatica, Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa, Psilocybe quebecensis

Psilocybe fimetaria is a psilocybin mushroom, having psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds.

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Etymology

  • From the words fim (fringed), et and aria (place)
  • Description

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  • Cap: 1.5 — 3.5 cm in diameter, convex to plano-convex, becoming subcampanulate to broadly convex in age, with or without a sharp papilla. Surface even to translucent-striate near the margin, viscid when moist from a thick separable gelatinous pellicle. Pale reddish brown to honey to ochraceous, hygrophanous, fading in drying to yellowish olive to ochraceous buff. Flesh whitish to honey colored, bruising bluish where injured.
  • Gills: Adnate-emarginate, subdistant, ventricose, whitish clay at first, eventually dark reddish brown with olivaceous hue, white fimbriate.
  • Spore Print: Dark purple-brown, (9.5)12.5 — 15(16) x 6.5 — 9.5 µm, ovoid in front view, ellipsoid in side view, thick walled with a broad germ pore.
  • Stem: 2 — 9 cm long by (0.5)2 — 4 mm thick. Cylindrical, flexuous, equal to slightly swollen at the base. Whitish at first, soon discoloring yellow to yellow brown from handling,reddish brown or honey brown in age, sometimes with distinctive blue tones at the base. Surface covered with whitish fibrils towards the apex, with a narrow annulus that develops from a thickly cortinate partial veil.
  • Odor: Farinaceous
  • Taste: Farinaceous
  • Microscopic features: Basidia 4-spored. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia (15)20 — 30(35) by (4)6 — 8(9) µm, ventricose-fusiform or lageniform with a narrow neck, often flexuous, 4 — 15 by 0.5 — 1.5 µm, occasionally branched.
  • Habitat and distribution

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    Psilocybe fimetaria is found growing solitary to gregariously on horse or cow dung, in grassy areas or in rich soils, and often fruits in large rings, from September to November, known from Canada (British Columbia and New Brunswick), the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho), Chile, Great Britain, and Europe. Widely distributed but not very common.

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    References

    Psilocybe fimetaria Wikipedia


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