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CAP: 1-4.5 cm diam., convex to subumbonate,
lubricous to subviscid, glabrous, translucent striate at the margin,
hygrophanous, orangish brown to yellowish brown, sometimes white when
dry
FLESH: whitish to ocherous pale, blueing, odor farinaceous
GILLS: subadnate, brownish pale to dark brownish violaceous, uniform in color
STEM :15-90 × 1–7 mm, smooth above
to floccose-scaly below, cylindric, equal, somewhat subbulbous, base
sometimes hypogeous, whitish, with irregular pale ochre or violaceous
tones below or pale reddish brown above, hollow, with white mycelium at
the base.
VEIL: Annulus membraneous, white,evanescent
EDIBILITY: Hallucinogenic and potent
HABITAT: Gregarious, on wood or wood debris, in
trails orplaces with herbaceous plants, in a deciduous forest. Ussually
found near rivers in flood plains where wood has accumulated and thick
vegetation has grown over the debris.
SPORES:(7–) 8–9 (–12) × (5.5–) 6–7 (–8.5) µm,
rhomboid or subrhomboid in face view, subellipsoid in side view, thick
walled, wall 0.8–1.5 µm thick, yellowish brown, with a broad germ pore
at one end and a short appendage at the other.
Geographic Location: Not completely known at this time. Reported specimans from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
NAME ORIGIN: From the Frequent Ovoid Both Pleuro- and Cheilocystidia
SOURCES: International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Vol. 9, pp. 75–77 (2007)
1521-9437/07/$35.00
© 2007 by Begell House, Inc.
