- Psilocybe graveolens
Taxobox
name = "Psilocybe graveolens"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Fungi
divisio =Basidiomycota
classis =Agaricomycetes
ordo =Agaricales
familia =Strophariaceae
genus =Psilocybe
species = "P. graveolens"
binomial = "Psilocybe graveolens"
binomial_authority =peck mycomorphbox
name = Psilocybe graveolens
whichGills = adnexed
capShape = convex
capShape2=umbonate
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=bare
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=purple-brown
howEdible=psychoactive"Psilocybe graveolens" is an extremely rare
psilocybin mushroom in the section Zapotacorum, which haspsilocybin andpsilocin as main active compounds, discovered in the salt marshes or "meadows" of Hackensack, New Jersey. Known for its strong and persistent odor.Description
*Cap: (1)2-3(4) cm in diameter, convex to subumbonate, umbonate or with a slight depression, glabrous, even to slightly striate at the margin, hygrophanous, brownish to orange brownish, fading to golden yellow to whitish, sometimes with a dark green hue. Flesh whitish to pallid brownish, with a strong unfavorable odor.
*Gills: Adnexed, close, yellowish brown to chocolate brown, edges sometimes lighter.
*Spore Print: dark purple brown
*Stipe: (2)4-6 cm x 2-5 mm, equal or slightly expanding at the base to subulbous, white to brownish, with dark greenish or violaceous tones. stuffed to hollow, fibrillose, with a soon disappearing evanescent annulus, rhizomorphic strands attached to the base.
*Taste: Farinaceous
*Odor: Farinaceous
*Microscopic features: Spores (7)7.5-9.5(10.5) x (3.7)4.5-5.2(6), pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present. Basidia 4-spored.Distribution and habitat
Caespitose to gregarious on rich loam of salt marshes or "meadows" in Hackensack, New Jersey, in November.
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