MycoKey : the species Psilocybe cyanescens

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly fairly small, dark-spored (often purplish black) saprobic agarics with viscid pileus, smooth spores, with thick walls and prominent germ pore and often with angular shape. No chrysocystida and epicutis mostly an ixorectocutis.


Psilocybe cyanescens - DK: blånende nøgenhat, UK: Blueleg Brownie

Psilocybe cyanescens , blånende nøgenhat, Blueleg Brownie, blånende fleinsopp, Blauwwordend kålkopje, Blaugrünfleckender Kahlkopf
Illustration and © Erik Rald
Denmark, 15.9.1993

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