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Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

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Watling & G.M. Taylor
Watling & G.M. Taylor
1987
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Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
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Psilocybe sp. 1

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Galera tenera (Fries) (8,16) Fig. 26 = Psilocybe sp.

The material (BERGGREN 60) consists of badly preserved carpophores possessing large spores 18-20 X 10-11 µ, with a smooth brown wall and prominent germ pore. According to the scanty data this species belongs to Psilocybe, rather than Galerina or Conocybe.

Pileus conico-campanulate, obtuse, thin, hygrophanous, entirely yellowish rust-colour when moist, even, pale and rather atomate when dry, 1.5-2.5 cm. high and broad; gills adnate, crowded, ascending, rather broad, cinnamon; spores 12-13 x 7 µ; stem 6-10 cm. high, slender, straight, fragile, equal or slightly narrowed upwards, rather shining, striate upwards, coloured like the pileus.
New Zealand. Australia, South Africa, Europe, United States, Brazil.
Among short grass, &c.
Variable in size, sometimes quite minute, at others exceeding the measurements given above. All one colour when moist, and the pileus very slightly striate; even, and pale everywhere when dry.

Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

As Galera tenera, Waitaki, Berggren 60 (K); Berggren material is the subject of a paper by Cooke in Grevillea (1890). Only the following microscopic data was obtainable:-

Chrysocystidia absent. Basidiospores 16.5-18 x 9.5-10.5 µm, mid-brown ochraceous with olivaceous tinge, smooth, thick-walled, sometimes with dark inclusions; germ-pore prominent, Pileipellis filamentous. Neither cheilo- nor pleurocystidia could be located.

We agree with Horak (i971b) in placing this collection in Psilocybe. It is impossible to be any more precise even using Guzman's monograph (1983).

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Agaricus tener sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Galera tenera sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Psilocybe sp. 1 sensu Watling & G.M. Taylor (1987)
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Psilocybe sp. 1 sensu Watling & G.M. Taylor (1987)
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Psilocybe sp. 1 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987
Psilocybe sp. 1 sensu Watling & G.M. Taylor (1987)

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16 March 2001
10 October 2019
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