Panaeolina foenisecii

Panaeolina foenisecii

''Panaeolina foenisecii'', commonly called the mower's mushroom, haymaker or brown hay mushroom, is a very common and widely distributed little brown mushroom often found on lawns. In 1963 Tyler and Smith found that this mushroom contains serotonin, 5-HTP and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid. In many field guides it is listed as psychoactive due to psilocybin content, however the mushroom does not produce any psychoactive alkaloids.

It is sometimes mistaken for the psychedelic ''Panaeolus cinctulus'' or ''Panaeolus olivaceus'' both of which share the same habitat and can be differentiated by their jet black spores. This is probably why Panaeolina foenisecii is often listed as a psychoactive species.
Mower's Mushroom Fall,Geotagged,Panaeolina foenisecii,United States

Appearance

*Cap: 1.5 to 3 cm across, conic to convex, chestnut brown to tan, hygrophanous, often with a dark band around the margin which fades as the mushroom dries.
⤷ Gills: Broad, adnate, brown with lighter edges, becoming mottled as the spores mature.
⤷ Stipe: 4 to 6 cm by 2 to 3 mm, fragile, hollow, white to light brown, pruinose and slightly striate.
⤷ Taste: A slightly unpleasant nutty fungal taste.
⤷ Odor: Nutty, slightly unpleasant.
⤷ Spore print: Dark walnut brown.
⤷ Microscopic features: Spores measure 12 - 17 x 7 - 11 μm, subfusoid to lemon shaped, rough, dextrinoid, with an apical germ pore. Cheilocystidia subfusoid to cylindric or subcapitate, often wavy, up to 50 μm long. Pleurocystidia absent, but some authors report inconspicuous "pseudocystidia". The pileipellis a cellular cuticle with subglobose elements and has pileocystidia.

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Taxonomy
KingdomFungi
DivisionBasidiomycota
ClassAgaricomycetes
OrderAgaricales
FamilyBolbitiaceae
GenusPanaeolina
SpeciesP. foenisecii
Photographed in
United States of America