Panaeolus olivaceus

Panaeolus olivaceus
Mycological characteristics
	gills on hymenium
	cap is campanulate or convex
	hymenium is adnexed or adnate
	stipe is bare
	spore print is black
	ecology is saprotrophic
	edibility: psychoactive

Panaeolus olivaceus is a semi-rare and widely distributed little brown mushroom which contains the hallucinogen psilocybin, is often mistaken for Panaeolina foenisecii, and is distinguished by its black spore print and darker gill coloration when mature, as well as a slightly thicker stem. It is even more easily mistaken for Panaeolus cinctulus and can be distinguished from that species by its more campanulate cap shape when young and slightly roughened spores. It is also easily confused with Panaeolina castaneifolia, a species which has spores that are dark brown and significantly more roughened.

Contents 1 Description 2 Habitat and formation 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Description

• Cap: 1— 3(4) cm across, Distinctly campanulate then subhemispheric to convex, becoming broadly conic, not fully expanding, incurved margin when young, dark smoky-grayish to dark cinnamon, drying to a straw-yellow or slightly olive-gray color, remaining more reddish-brown towards the center, hygrophanous, smooth, sometimes striated or finely corrugated, flesh thick and firm.
• Gills: Adnate to adnexed, close, thin, pallid, mottled, slightly olive-greenish, becoming dark purplish gray-black in age, edge whitish.
• Stipe: 4— 6(7.5) cm by 3— 4(6) mm thick, equal to slightly tapering at the base, hollow, brittle, pruinose and slightly striate, no veil remnants. Grayish to ochraceous, tan or purple at the base.
• Spores: Black, slightly roughened, 12 — 15(17) x 7 — 8.5(10) micrometers, elliptic, rugose or verrucose.
• Microscopic features: Basidia 24 — 28 x 10 - 12 micrometers. Cheilocystidia (20)24— 30(38) x (5)7 — 10 micrometers, abundant, neck often flexuous and apices usually obtuse, thin walled and hyaline, pleurocystidia rare or absent, not projecting beyond plane of basidia.

Habitat and formation

Panaeolus olivaceus grows scattered to gregariously in rich grassy areas, from late summer through December, across North and South America, likely more widely distributed; it has been collected in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Georgia, Canada's Quebec and in the United Kingdom.

Gallery

See also

• List of Panaeolus species

References

• Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0. 

External links

• Panaeolus olivaceus image
• Mushroom Observer - Panaeolus olivaceus
• Key to Panaeolus in the Pacific Northwest

Psilocybin mushrooms List of psilocybin mushrooms • Legal status of psilocybin mushrooms Gymnopilus G. aeruginosus • G. braendlei • G. junonius • G. liquiritiae • G. luteofolius • G. luteoviridis • G. luteus • G. purpuratus • G. sapineus • G. validipes • G. viridans Inocybe I. aeruginascens • I. corydalina var. corydalina • I. tricolor Panaeolus P. africanus • P. bisporus • P. cambodginiensis • P. cinctulus • P. cyanescens • P. fimicola • P. olivaceus • P. papilionaceus var. parvisporus • P. tropicalis Psilocybe P. argentipes • P. atlantis • P. aucklandii • P. australiana • P. azurescens • P. baeocystis • P. bohemica • P. caerulescens var. caerulescens • P. caerulipes • P. cubensis • P. cyanescens • P. cyanofibrillosa • P. fimetaria • P. galindoi • P. graveolens • P. guilartensis • P. hispanica • P. liniformans var. americana • P. meridionalis • P. mescaleroensis • P. mexicana • P. naematoliformis • P. ovoideocystidiata • P. pelliculosa • P. plutonia • P. quebecensis • P. samuiensis • P. semiinconspicua • P. semilanceata • P. silvatica • P. strictipes • P. stuntzii • P. subaeruginascens • P. subaeruginosa • P. tampanensis • P. villarrealiae • P. weilii • P. weraroa • P. zapotecorum Other Conocybe cyanopus • Conocybe smithii • Mycena cyanorrhiza • Panaeolina castaneifolia • Pluteus salicinus