- Gymnopilus validipes
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Gymnopilus validipes Scientific classification Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Cortinariaceae Genus: Gymnopilus Species: G. validipes Binomial name Gymnopilus validipes
((Peck) Hesler)Synonyms Cortinarius validipes Gymnopolis magna
Gymnopilus validipes Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium 
cap is convex 
hymenium is adnexed
or adnate
stipe has a ring 
spore print is yellow-orange 
ecology is saprotrophic 
edibility: psychoactive Gymnopilus validipes is a widely distributed mushroom of North America and Europe. Gymnopilus validipes contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. The mild taste of this mushroom stands in contrast to closely related bitter species. Validipes means "having a robust stalk." Gymnopilus validipes contains about 0.12% psilocybin.[1]
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Description
- Pileus: (4)7.5 — 15(30) cm, Convex to broadly convex, margin deeply incurved at first, becoming revolute with age, dry, fibrillose or with small ochraceous brown scales, pale-yellow or ochraceous buff, flesh soft, whitish, yellowish near the gills.
- Gills: Adnate to uncinate, close, thin, yellowish white becoming cinnamon.
- Spore Print: Orangish brown.
- Stipe: (7.5)10 — 13(25) cm. long, (1.5)2.5 — 5 cm. thick, equal or swelling in the middle, fleshy-fibrous, solid, elastic, fibrillose, concolorous, white within, the cortina leaves only a faint ring on the robust stalk.
- Taste: Mild.
- Odor: Pleasant.
- Microscopic features: Spores (7.5)8 — 10 X 5 — 6, ellipsoid.
Habitat and formation
Gymnopilus validipes is found growing gregarious to cespitose on tree stumps, hardwood logs and debris, widespread in the United States, common from the Great Lakes and eastward.
See also
References
- Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
- Hesler, L. R. (1969). North American species of Gymnopilus. New York: Hafner. 117 pp.
Psilocybin mushrooms Gymnopilus G. aeruginosus • G. braendlei • G. junonius • G. liquiritiae • G. luteofolius • G. luteoviridis • G. luteus • G. purpuratus • G. sapineus • G. validipes • G. viridans
Inocybe Panaeolus Psilocybe P. argentipes • P. atlantis • P. aucklandii • P. australiana • P. azurescens • P. baeocystis • P. bohemica • P. caerulescens var. caerulescens • P. caerulipes • P. cubensis • P. cyanescens • P. cyanofibrillosa • P. fimetaria • P. galindoi • P. graveolens • P. guilartensis • P. hispanica • P. liniformans var. americana • P. meridionalis • P. mescaleroensis • P. mexicana • P. naematoliformis • P. ovoideocystidiata • P. pelliculosa • P. plutonia • P. quebecensis • P. samuiensis • P. semiinconspicua • P. semilanceata • P. silvatica • P. strictipes • P. stuntzii • P. subaeruginascens • P. subaeruginosa • P. tampanensis • P. villarrealiae • P. weilii • P. weraroa • P. zapotecorum
Other Categories:- Gymnopilus
- Entheogens
- Psychoactive fungi
- Psychedelic tryptamine carriers
- Fungi of North America
- Fungi of Europe
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