PDD 95289 – Psilocybe cyanescens Wakef.
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 95289
Specimen type:
Packet
Loan status:
Active
Database record added:
01 April 2010
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Psilocybe cyanescens cf.
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2021 (Verbatim: 2021)
Preferred name:
Psilocybe cyanescens Wakef.
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Hymenogastraceae
Identification type:
Determination
Substrate:
soil
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Psilocybe
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2015 (Verbatim: 2015)
Preferred name:
Psilocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Verbatim collector:
Collectors reference no.:
JAC8997
Verbatim date:
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Cap 3cm hemispherical. Stem 4mm x 5cm, bluing. Without pleurocystidia (and both makaroae and aucklandii are supposed to have them, although 'inconspicuous' in aucklandiae). Some spores slightly asymmetrical in side-view. Spore wall thickness 0.5–0.7µm (µ=0.56, σ=0.08), n=19 which I would consider to be 'thick-walled'. P. aucklandiae is put in Guzman's section Zapotecorum which is supposed to have thin-walls but P.a. is described with a wall thickness of 0.5um! The switch is between Zapotecorum (thin walled), Aztecorum (thick-walled, drying white, with asymmetrical spores), Semilanceata (thick-walled, symmetric, not drying white). Spore length here =8.6–11.3µm (µ=9.5, σ=0.8), width=5.2–6.5µm (µ=5.8, σ=0.4), Q=1.4–1.8µm (µ=1.6, σ=0.1), n=18. Doesn't actually fit anything in Guzman's sections semilanceata or zapotecorum. The spores here are not angled. The later described P. makarorae is placed in section mexicanae which indicates it would have rhomboid spores. Neck on cystidia up to 12um long, width of cystidia 6.4 SD0.7,n=13. The tips are thick-walled and frequently with an exudate (in Melzers). So this is closer to aucklandii than makarorae. I wouldn't call Akaroa tropical or sub-tropical, combined with apical exudate on cystidia, and this on litter, not wood, may mean this is something else again. Sequences say P. cyanescens ss in the azurescens/cyanescens/subaeruginosa complex. This has macro-morphology of P. allenii (thin stem, no wavy cap) but is not.
Assigned reference numbers
JA Cooper Fungarium:
JAC8997
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