Summary:
A notable feature is the mycelium at the base of the stem that bruises bluish due to its hallucinogenic content. Other features include a brown, non-viscid cap with a striate margin when moist; adnexed, close, rusty brown gills with white edges; a fragile, whitish stem that becomes grayish or brownish at top; growth in grass or moss; and rusty a brown spore deposit. Pholiotina cyanopus Pholiotina cyanopus (G.F. Atk.) Singer was the current name in MycoBank, accessed October 25, 2018, but not in Species Fungorum, accessed the same day.

Cap:
0.7-1.2(2.5)cm across, nearly hemispheric to convex, expanding to broadly convex when old; reddish cinnamon brown to dark brown; moist when wet, soon dry, smooth overall to slightly wrinkled toward the disc when old, margin translucent striate when moist, (Stamets), (0.3)0.5-1.5cm, bluntly conical to expanded-umbonate; cinnamon brown, paler when faded; bald, when fresh translucent-striate, the partial veil sometimes leaving trace cortinate remnants along the cap margin, soon disappearing, (Smith), 0.3-2.5cm across, ocher to brown; sulcate [grooved], (Moser), with faint, filamentous veil fragments, (Watling)

Flesh:
whitish to colorless in cap, slightly darker and finally rusty tawny in stem base, (Watling), very thin and fragile (Smith)

Gills:
adnexed, close, moderately broad; dull rusty brown; with edge fringed whitish, (Stamets), adnate, not crowded; dull rust, edge white; edge floccose, (Watling), close to subdistant, becoming broad; finally cinnamon-tawny, (Smith)

Stem:
2-4cm x 0.1-0.14cm, equal to slightly curved at base, fragile, breaking easily; whitish at first, becoming grayish or brownish at top, and often adorned with whitish mycelium at base that bruises bluish, (Stamets), 2-4cm x 0.1-0.15cm, equal or very slightly swollen; white becoming grayish or streaked with cinnamon at top on handling or when old, dark bluish green at base, fading to greenish gray; silky-striate throughout, (Watling), 1-3cm x 0.1-0.2cm, with slight bulb; whitish toward top, greenish to bluish near base (Smith)

Veil:
thin cortinate, sometimes leaving traces along cap margin, soon disappearing, no ring, (Stamets)

Odor:
not distinctive (Watling)

Taste:
not distinctive (Watling)

Microscopic spores:
spores 6.5-7.5(8.5) x 4.5-5 microns; pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia 20-25 x 7.5-11 microns, (Stamets), spores 6.5-7.5(8.5) x 4.5-5 microns, broadly elliptic in face view, inequilateral in side view, dull rust in alkali, fairly thick-walled, germ pore small but distinct; basidia 4-spored, 15-20 x 7-8.5 microns, clavate; pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia swollen at base with cylindric, tapered neck and obtuse apex, rarely subcapitate, 20-25 x 7.5-10 microns, neck up to 15 microns long, apex 4-5 microns wide; cap cuticle "a hymeniform layer of pyriform cells" intermixed with numerous cystidia similar to cheilocystidia; stem cuticle of colorless, cylindric hyphae supporting cylindric-lageniform cystidia especially at stem apex; veil of filamentous, +/- colorless hyphae; clamp connections not seen, (Watling), spores 7-9 x 4-4.5 microns; cheilocystidia (20)30-40 microns long, fusoid-ventricose, apex +/- obtuse, (Smith)

Spore deposit:
rusty brown (Stamets)

Notes:
Conocybe cyanopus has been reported from BC, WA, CO, and temperate regions of central and northern Europe (Finland, Germany, Norway), (Stamets(1)).

EDIBILITY

probably moderately to highly hallucinogenic, 0.33-1.01% psilocybin, 0-0.007% psilocin, 0.12-0.20% baeocystin, beware of similar Galerinas that may be poisonous, (Stamets)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Pholiotina cyanopus (G.F. Atk.) Singer Trudy