Psilocybe sabulosa
no common name
Hymenogastraceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Hymenogastraceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include a non-viscid, hygrophanous, orange brown to ochraceous or fulvous-yellow cap, dingy yellow gills that are soon purplish brown or fuscous-black with white edges, growth in sand dunes or sandy soil in pastures, and microscopic characters.
Cap:
(1)1.5-3(4.4)cm across, convex to umbonate, becoming somewhat flat or depressed around the broad umbo; hygrophanous, "orange brown to ochraceous or fulvous-yellow, fading to brownish yellow or straw color"; non-viscid, bald and even or minutely scrobiculate [with small pits], "margin sometimes with small whitish appendages"
Flesh:
whitish, in part tending to become yellowish when old
Gills:
broadly adnate, at times with subdecurrent tooth; sordid yellowish soon purplish brown, fuscous-black or fuliginous [sooty], with whitish edges; edges subfloccose
Stem:
2.5-5.1cm x 0.15-0.5cm, equal or widening at base slightly, stuffed to hollow; ochraceous or deep yellow with paler or pallid top; with fine appressed scales to bald, not slimy, base rooting
Veil:
well-formed, composed of white arachnoid [cobwebby] fibrils, mainly when young, sometimes as somewhat floccose fleeting scales on stem, and on cap margin, but no ring is formed
Microscopic spores:
spores (11)12-16.5(18.7) x (7.2)8.2-9.3(10.4) microns, elliptic or subelliptic, yellowish brown, thick-walled, with broad truncate germ pore, [presumably smooth]; basidia 4-spored, few 2- or 3-spored, 15-25 x 8-10 microns, colorless, ventricose; pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia abundant, 19-42 x 3-10 microns, colorless, "thin-walled, narrowly ampullaceous, but also filamentous, rarely sublageniform and clavate", neck somewhat capitate, 3-4.5 microns broad; clamp connections present
Spore deposit:
[presumably purple-brown to sooty brown]
Notes:
P. sabulosa has been found in pocket desert near Osooyos BC (Paul Kroeger, pers. comm., a collection deposited at University of British Columbia), as well as KS and Argentina.
EDIBILITY
Habitat and Range
Habitat
gregarious or single, sometimes in small groups or scattered, "in sand dunes or sandy soil in pastures (or in alpine areas)"
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Psilocybe dunicola (Speg.) Singer
Psilocybe squarrosipes Singer