Psilocybe subaeruginosa

Appearance

The cap is 1–6 cm in diameter, conical to convex, tan brown, hygrophanous, margin striate when moist, uplifting in age, and often with a slight umbo. It bruises bluish where damaged. The gills are crowded, cream color when young, violet brown in age, with adnate to adnexed attachment. The spore print is dark violet brown. The stipe is 4.5 to 22 cm long, 0.2 to 0.5 cm thick, white, bruising blue where damaged, finely striate, and equal to slightly enlarged near the base. A white cortinate partial veil soon disappears and often leaves traces in the upper stipe. The taste and odor are farinaceous. The cheilocystidia are 17–29 x 5.5–11, hyaline, fusoid-ventricose, subpyriform or mucronate, often with an elongated neck at the apex which is 2–4.5 µm. The pleurocystidia measure 22–47 x 6–16 µm and is shaped like the cheilocystidia and also hyaline. The spores are smooth, subellipsoid, with an apical germ pore, measuring 13.2–14.3 x 6.6–7.7 x 6–7.5 µm.

Distribution

''Psilocybe subaeruginosa'' grows solitary to gregarious from wood such as wood chips in urban areas, pine tree plantations and woody debris in forests and gardens. It is common in southern parts of Australia and New Zealand from April to August.

Habitat

''Psilocybe subaeruginosa'' grows solitary to gregarious from wood such as wood chips in urban areas, pine tree plantations and woody debris in forests and gardens. It is common in southern parts of Australia and New Zealand from April to August.