Biology:Gymnopilus validipes

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Short description: Species of fungus

Gymnopilus validipes
Gymnopilus validipes (Peck) Hesler 299026.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Gymnopilus
Species:
G. validipes
Binomial name
Gymnopilus validipes
(Peck) Hesler
Synonyms

Cortinarius validipes Gymnopolis magna

Gymnopilus validipes
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Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is convex
hymenium is adnexed or adnate
stipe has a ring
spore print is yellow-orange
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: psychoactive

Gymnopilus validipes is a mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It is widely distributed in North America and Europe.

Description

  • Pileus: 7.5 — 15 cm, convex to broadly convex, margin deeply incurved at first, becoming revolute with age, dry, fibrillose or with small ochraceous brown scales, pale-yellow or ochraceous buff, flesh soft, whitish, yellowish near the gills.
  • Gills: Adnate to uncinate, close, thin, yellowish white becoming cinnamon.
  • Spore print: Orangish brown.
  • Stipe: 10 — 13 cm long, 2.5 – 5 cm. thick, equal or swelling in the middle, fleshy-fibrous, solid, elastic, fibrillose, concolorous, white within, the cortina leaves only a faint ring on the stalk. The specific epithet validipes means "having a robust stalk".
  • Taste: Mild, standing in contrast to closely related bitter-tasting species.
  • Odor: Pleasant.
  • Microscopic features: Spores 8 — 10 X 5 — 6 μm, ellipsoid.

Gymnopilus validipes contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin, the latter at a concentration of around 0.12%.[1]

Habitat and formation

Gymnopilus validipes is found growing gregarious (in groups) to cespitose (in dense clumps) on tree stumps, hardwood logs and debris, widespread in the United States , common from the Great Lakes and eastward.

See also

References

  • Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0. 
  • Hesler, L. R. (1969). North American species of Gymnopilus. New York: Hafner. 117 pp.


Wikidata ☰ Q5625033 entry