Psilocybe baeocystis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hymenogastraceae |
| Genus: | Psilocybe |
| Species: | P. baeocystis |
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Psilocybe baeocystis Singer & A.H.Smith (1958) |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
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gills on hymenium |
 
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cap is convex or conical |
 
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hymenium is adnate or sinuate |
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stipe is bare |
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spore print is purple-brown |
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ecology is saprotrophic |
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edibility: psychoactive |
cap is convex
hymenium is adnate
Psilocybe baeocystis is a psilocybin mushroom of the family Hymenogastraceae. It contains the hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin, psilocin and baeocystin. The species is commonly known by various names such as bottle caps, knobby tops, blue bells, olive caps.
The cap is 1.5–5.5 cm in diameter and conic to obtusely conic to . The cap margin is turned inwards when young, rarely becoming plane in age, often distinctly rippled, translucent-striate and bruising and aging greenish-bluish about the margin. It is dark olive brown to buff brown in color, occasionally steel blue; when dried it tends toward copper brown in the center. It is hygrophanous, fading to milk white, and viscid when moist from a gelatinous pellicle, usually separable. The flesh is thin and bruises blue easily. The gills are close with adnate to sinuate attachment and are grayish to cinnamon brown, with the edges remaining pallid. The stipe is 5–7 cm long, 2–3 mm thick, and equal to . The color is pallid to brownish with white filaments, while often more yellowish towards the apex. Distinct rhizomorphs are found at the base. The stipe is brittle, stuffed with loose fibers, and the partial veil is and rapidly becomes indistinguishable. It stains blue easily where damaged. Psilocybe baeocystis has a farinaceous smell and taste.
Psilocybe baeocystis spores are dark purplish brown in deposit, oblong in face view or asymmetric ellipsoid (mango form) in side view, and are (8.5) 9.5–13.7(17) x (5) 5.5–6.6(7.1) µm. The basidia are 4-spored, and pleurocystidia are absent. The cheilocystidia are 20–30(40) x 4.5–6(9) µm and with a narrow neck.
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