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

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Name scientific

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

Preferred name

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

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Original authors

Watling & G.M. Taylor

Authors

Watling & G.M. Taylor

Publication place

Watling, R.; Taylor, G.M. 1987: Observations on the Bolbitiaceae: 27. Preliminary account of the Bolbitiaceae of New Zealand. Bibliotheca Mycologica. 117.

Year published

1987

Publication page

Nomenclatural status

invalidly published

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

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

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Psilocybe sp. 1

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogasteraceae

Genus

Psilocybe

Species

sp. 1

Synonyms

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Galera tenera sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Notes

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.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Galera tenera sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

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.

Distribution

New Zealand. Australia, South Africa, Europe, United States, Brazil.

Habitat

Among short grass, &c.

Notes

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.

Watling, R.; Taylor, G.M. 1987: Observations on the Bolbitiaceae: 27. Preliminary account of the Bolbitiaceae of New Zealand. Bibliotheca Mycologica. 117.

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

Notes

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).