Gymnopilus viridans
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| Gymnopilus viridans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Cortinariaceae |
| Genus: | Gymnopilus |
| Species: | G. viridans |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnopilus viridans (Murrill) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Flammula viridans |
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| Gymnopilus viridans | |
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gills on hymenium |
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cap is convex |
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hymenium is adnexed or adnate |
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spore print is yellow-orange |
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ecology is saprotrophic |
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edibility: psychoactive |
Gymnopilus viridans is a rarely documented mushroom. It contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. The last known collection is from Washington, United States (1912).
[edit] Description
- Pileus: — 8 cm, thick, convex with a large umbo, ochraceous, dry, with conspicuous light reddish brown scales that are sparse but become denser toward the center; flesh firm, becoming green-spotted where handled.
- Gills: Adnate, broad, crowded, edges undulate, dingy brown to rusty brown with age.
- Spore Print: Rusty brown.
- Stipe: — 6 cm x 2 cm thick, enlarging below, solid, firm, colored like the cap,
- Microscopic features: Spores (6)7 x 8.5 x (3.5)4 — 5 µm ellipsoid, not dextrinoid, minutely verruculose, obliquely pointed at one end, no germ pore. Pleurocystidia absent, Cheilocystidia 20 — 26 x 5 — 7 µm, caulocystidia 35 — 43 x 4 — 7 µm, clamp connections present.
[edit] Habitat and formation
Gymnopilus viridans is found growing cespitose on coniferous wood from June to November.
[edit] References
- Murrill, Mycologia 4: 257. 1912. (Flammula viridans Murrill, Mycologia 4: 262. 1912.)
- Hesler, Mycologia Memoir No. 3 1969, North American Species of Gymnopilus
