Psilocybe ruiliensis explained
Psilocybe ruiliensis is a species of psilocybin mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. Described as new to science in 2016, it is found in Yunnan province of southwest China. The species epithet, ruiliensis, is a reference to the location Ruili where the type collections were found. The type specimens were growing solitary to scattered in grasslands in which cows and horses had previously grazed.[1]
Description
- Cap: NaNmm in diameter; conic to almost plane, with or without umbo or small acutely papillate at the disk; brownish-yellow (often with reddish tinge); hygrophanous and translucently striate when moist, watery brown when wet; sometimes bruising blue when damaged or mature; cortinate white veil and sometimes small scales when young.
- Gills: Yellowish or beige when young, chocolate brown in age (gray-purple or purple tinge), with adnate to subsinuate or adnexed attachment; edges serrulate and slightly wavy.
- Spores: Brown with purple tinge (in water); ellipsoid to subhexagonal; smooth and slightly thick-walled, sometimes containing 1–2 oil drops; 9–11 by 6–7.5 μm.
- Stipe: NaNmm long, NaNmm thick; yellow-white to brownish, sometimes bruising bluish when damaged; central or occasionally slightly eccentric; fibrillose; hollow; annulus absent; equal to slightly enlarged bulbous base. Stem base with rhizomorphic white mycelium.
- Odor: Slightly grassy.
- Microscopic features: Larger hexagonal and subrhomboid basidiospores (9.6–12.0 by 6.4–8.4 μm); ventricose-lageniform cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia.
See also
Notes and References
- 284. 3. 16 November 2016 . Species of Psilocybe (Hymenogastraceae) from Yunnan, southwest China. Tao Ma . Xiao-Fei Ling. Kevin D. Hyde. 10.11646/phytotaxa.284.3.3. Phytotaxa . 181.
