- Psilocybe bohemica
Taxobox
name = "Psilocybe bohemica"
regnum = Fungi
divisio =Basidiomycota
classis =Agaricomycetes
ordo =Agaricales
familia =Strophariaceae
genus =Psilocybe
species = "P. bohemica"
binomial = "Psilocybe bohemica"
binomial_authority = Sebek
synonyms =
range_
range_map_width = 240px
range_map_caption = Range of "Psilocybe bohemica"mycomorphbox
name = Psilocybe bohemica
whichGills = adnate
whichGills2 = adnexed
capShape = convex
capShape2=conical
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=cortina
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=blackish-brown
sporePrintColor2=purple
howEdible=psychoactivePsilocybe bohemica, is a
psilocybin mushroom of theAgaricales family, havingpsilocybin psilocin and low amounts of baeocystin as main active compounds. This species is closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens, the later having a strong farinaceous odor as well as taste and is not translucent-striate when moist.Description
*Cap: (1)2 - 4(5) cm Initially obtusely conic, becoming campanulate or convex, expanding to broadly convex or plane in age, incurved at first then plane or decurved with age, buff-brown to dingy orangish-brown, pale ochraceous when dry, smooth, hygrophanous, slightly translucent-striate when moist but not viscid and without a separable gelatinous pellicle. Flesh whitish to cream, bruising blue when injured.
*Gills: Adnate to adnexed, close, often distinctly subdecurrent, initially light brown, becoming dark brown with age with a purple tint, edges remaining paler.
*Spores: Purple-brown, ellipsoid, slightly flattened, thick-walled, with a distinct germ pore; 10-12.5 × 6-7.5 microns.
*Taste: Not distinctive.
*Odor: Not distinctive.
*Stipe: 4.5 - 8 (10) cm by 2- 10 mm, Equal, slightly enlarging at the base, whitish, with a silky gloss, glabrous or with some whitish remnants of the fibrillose veil.
*Microscopic features:Habitat and formation
"Psilocybe bohemica" is found growing singly or in groups, on well decayed deciduous and coniferous wood, on twigs, compost, plant residue, in gardens, parks, on roadsides, in rich places.
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