Gymnopilus subearlei

Gymnopilus subearlei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cortinariaceae
Genus: Gymnopilus
Species: G. subearlei
Binomial name
Gymnopilus subearlei
R. Valenz., Guzmán & J. Castillo
Gymnopilus subearlei
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Mycological characteristics

gills on hymenium
cap is convex

hymenium is adnexed

or adnate
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: psychoactive

Gymnopilus subearlei is a species of mushroom in the Cortinariaceae family. The flesh of this mushroom stains blue and it contains the hallucinogen psilocybin.[1]

Phylogeny

This species is in the lepidotus-subearlei infrageneric grouping of the genus Gymnopilus.[2]

References

  1. Guzmán-Dávalos L. (2006). "A New Bluing, Probably Hallucinogenic Species of Gymnopilus P. Karst. (Agaricomycetideae) from Mexico". International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 8 (3): 289–293. doi:10.1615/intjmedmushr.v8.i3.110. ISSN 1521-9437.
  2. Guzman-Davalos L, Mueller G, Cifuentes J, Miller AN, Santerre A. (2003). Traditional infrageneric classification of Gymnopilus is not supported by ribosomal DNA sequence data. Mycologia. pp. 1204–14.

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