Psilocybe strictipes is a mushroom that grows on grassy meadows and lawns; It is found throughout the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and it is most common in Europe, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It contains the psychoactive compound psilocybin is closely related to Psilocybe semilanceata and Psilocybe pelliculosa. Psilocybe strictipes is commonly confused with Psilocybe semilanceata and can be differentiated by its lack of a papilla and a convex to subumbonate cap. "Strictipes" comes from the Latin words stricti (narrow) and pes (foot).

Psilocybe strictipes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Psilocybe
Species:
P. strictipes
Binomial name
Psilocybe strictipes
Synonyms[1]

Psilocybe callosa (Fr. : Fr.) Quel. s.Guzmán (1983)
Psilocybe semilanceata var. obtusa Bon
Psilocybe semilanceata var. microspora Singer

Psilocybe strictipes
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is conical or campanulate
Hymenium is adnate or subdecurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is brown to purple
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is psychoactive
P. strictipes spores

Description

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Psilocybe strictipes has a farinaceous smell and taste. Pleurocystidia are absent and its lageniform cheilocystidia are 21-45 by 7-10 μm. The cap is 5 to 30 mm across, conic to campanulate to convex, smooth, and translucent-striate near the margin, often with a low umbo. It is walnut brown to dark rusty brown, with a smooth surface and a separable gelatinous pellicle. It is Hygrophanous, fading to buff as it dries. The flesh sometimes stains blue where damaged. The gills are cream-colored when young and dark purple brown when mature, with an adnate attachment. The spores are dark purple brown, suboblong, and 11 by 6 μm. The stipe has a white to ocher, equal, tough, and cartilaginous structure with fibrillose patches. It is 4 to 10 cm long and around .25 cm thick. The partial veil is thin, cortinate, and does not usually leave any remnants on the stipe.

Distribution and habitat

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Psilocybe strictipes fruits in late summer to fall in Chile, England, Scotland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Siberia, and the Pacific Northwest. Psilocybe strictipes is found in lawns and grassy fields but never growing directly from dung.

See also

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References

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  • Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
  1. ^ Guzmán G, Allen JW, Gartz J (2000). "A worldwide geographical distribution of the neurotropic fungi, an analysis and discussion" (PDF). Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto: Sezione Archeologia, Storia, Scienze Naturali. 14: 189–280.
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