Psilocybe sp. 2 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

Details

Name scientific

Psilocybe sp. 2 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

Preferred name

Psilocybe sp. 2 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

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. 2 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Psilocybe sp. 2

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogasteraceae

Genus

Psilocybe

Species

sp. 2

Synonyms

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Agaricus semiorbicularis sensu Cooke 1879

Collections Examined

On dung. Waitaki (61).

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

Naucoria semiorbicularis sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Notes

293. X A Naucoria semiorbicularis (Fries) (4,8,16) = Agrocybe semiorbicularis (Fries) Fayod

Although the material (BERGGREN 61) is half destroyed by insects all the diagnostic microscopical characters of this European species were found. It is apparently an introduced fungus in New Zealand.

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

Naucoria semiorbicularis sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus hemispherical, then expanded, even, glabrous, slightly viscid, at length rivulose, tawny-ferruginous, ochraceous when dry, 2.5-5 cm. across when expanded; flesh thin, whitish; gills adnate, rarely more or less sinuous, very broad, crowded, pallid, then rusty - orange ; spores elliptical, 10 x 5-6 µ; stem 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 mm., thick, tough, nearly straight, pale-ferruginous, shining, base usually darker, hollow, the cavity containing a free strand which readily splits into fibrils.

Distribution

Waitaki, New Zealand. Australia, India, Europe, United States.

Habitat

Among short grass, &c.

Notes

Allied to Naucoria pediades, from which it is readily distinguished by the viscid pileus, broad gills, and rusty or ferruginous stem.

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

Psilocybe sp. 2 Watling & G.M. Taylor 1987

Notes

As Agaricus semiorbicularis, Waitaki, Berggren 61 (K). Badly consumed by insects. Only the following microscopic data was obtainable;

Cheilocystidia absent. Basidiospores 11-12 x 6.5-7(-7.5) µm, smooth, thick-walled with truncate germ-pore, sometimes with dark inclusions. Pileipellis filamentous. Neither cheilocystidia nor pleurocystidia could be found.

This belongs to Psilocybe; see comments above. We do not agree with the placement by Horak (197ib).

An illustration in E apparently is a copy by M. C. Cooke of a Berggren collection labelled 'AGARICUS (GALERA), on the ground, New Zealand'. It is impossible to go any further but it is not unlikely that this figure depicts one of the above collections of Psilocybe.