Panaeolus antillarum
Panaeolus antillarum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Bolbitiaceae |
Genus: | Panaeolus |
Species: | P. antillarum |
Binomial name | |
Panaeolus antillarum (Fr.) Dennis | |
Synonyms | |
Agaricus antillarum |
Panaeolus antillarum | |
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gills on hymenium | |
cap is convex | |
hymenium is adnexed | |
stipe is bare | |
spore print is black | |
ecology is saprotrophic | |
edibility: edible |
Panaeolus antillarum is a common and widely distributed small to medium sized grey mushroom which grows on dung. It is edible but not commonly eaten. Found from northern North America through Mexico into northern South America.[1]
It is often mistaken for Panaeolus semiovatus var. phalaenarum or Panaeolus cyanescens, the latter species can be distinguished by the thinner, grayer cap and blue bruising.
Description
- Cap: 3 to 6 cm, bell-shaped to convex, white to light gray or yellowish, The caps are thick, smooth, often with fine wrinkles and acquire a silver white shiny color in age.
- Gills: Gray in young specimens, turning black as the spores mature.
- Spore print: Jet black.
- Stipe: 4 to 22 cm long and .5 to 2 cm thick, solid, sometimes slightly larger at the base.
- Taste: Fungal.
- Odor: Fungal.
- Microscopic features: Spores ellipsoid, 15 - 20 (21) x 10 - 14 x 8 - 10(11 μm. Cheilocystidia cylindrical to narrowly utriform, colorless, 30 - 45 μm. Sulphidia clavate, sometimes with a stalk, 25 - 50 μm. Basidia four spored, 30 - 35 micrometers long. [2]
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See also
References
- ↑ Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
- ↑ Gerhardt, Ewald. TAXONOMISCHE REVISION DER GATTUNGEN PANAEOLUS UND PANAEOLINA. ISBN 3-510-48018-X.