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Update June 14th: Psilocybe fimetaria still not confirmed entirely after all.. 1
#21760422 - 06/04/15 06:18 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Found these yesterday (June 3rd) growing from well manured soil in sheep pasture. Panaeolus papilionaceus growing right next to them. The spot is in the heart of one of one of the more prolific P. semilanceata habitats in my area. However other typical pasture species also fruit here in abundance.
Caps hygrophanous, with thin separable gelatinous layer. Spore print purplish brown. At first look I thought Deconica without doubt. Waking up today checking the prints and taking new gill shots I'm not so sure. Gill attachment looks slightly off for Deconica coprophila. I also kind of imagine seeing a blueish streak where the stem was broken off. I probably won't get a safe id on these without more info however I'd like to get some more points of view.





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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21761470 - 06/04/15 12:28 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looks like a lib to me
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: LincolnCityTripper]
#21761770 - 06/04/15 01:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looks like im seeing some oxidation where the stipe was cut and maybe on the cap margin... or is that just lighting? Im no expert on either but... the print looks brown (to me) abut their looks to be oxidation on the fruits... but my first thought was also Deconica. Im just here to
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: art2312]
#21762191 - 06/04/15 03:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, thanks for the input. I have a correspondence going about this, got some interesting suggestions. We'll see.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish] 1
#21800790 - 06/13/15 04:56 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Okay, so these were sent off for professional scrutiny, and microscopic study reveals that this is indeed the elusive Psilocybe fimetaria (add Chinese gong sound).
Adding to my excitement is the fact that this is the first officially registered find of this species in Norway!

Naturally, I'm then also curious as to whether these are all what I perceive them to be. They were found less than 150 meters from the P. fimetaria.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21800819 - 06/13/15 05:11 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Good work, nice find 
Were they growing directly from the dung or around it?
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: TimmiT]
#21800829 - 06/13/15 05:16 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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These were growing from what I would call very decomposed or "former" dung, it had actually turned more or less into soil, mainly visible as a dark brown spot with grass starting to protrude through it.
This area is mainly grazed by sheep, and it seems to me that most of the coprophilous fungi rarely grow directly from sheep manure before it is well decayed.
I'm going to head out there this evening to check for more.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21801206 - 06/13/15 08:55 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow! The very elusive fimetaria! You gonna be giving spores out? They are essentially Cubensis, but for temperate climates. I've always wondered why these aren't as widely spread as what Cubensis are!
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: daz01]
#21801249 - 06/13/15 09:06 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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daz01 said: You gonna be giving spores out?
Heh, I only found to specimens, both of which were sent off for microscopy. I guess they'll end up in the herbarium of the Norwegian Museum of Natural History and Science.
The rather faint prints I managed to collect were not kept, I'm afraid. In any case I would believe cloning would be the way to go if one were to try cultivating this species.
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They are essentially Cubensis, but for temperate climates. I've always wondered why these aren't as widely spread as what Cubensis are!
I don't know about this. They are apparently quite close to P. semilanceata. The species is apparently widespread but not very abundant. I believe it might be more common than suspected, mainly due to people mistaking them for "odd" P. semilanceata.
However I'll keep the hunt up for these, maybe some time in the future there might be possibilities for a cultivation experiment. I also urge anyone else interested to get out there and try to locate these.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21801276 - 06/13/15 09:15 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Also, I thought Stamets reported them as having an annulus?
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: daz01]
#21801318 - 06/13/15 09:26 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Great job Anglerfish! Congratulations on this very interesting find. 
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daz01 said: They are essentially Cubensis, but for temperate climates. I've always wondered why these aren't as widely spread as what Cubensis are!
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No, they aren't essentially P. Cubensis, they aren't even in Psilocybe sect. Cubensae, but they could be close to P. semilanceata.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: daz01]
#21801353 - 06/13/15 09:33 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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daz01 said: Also, I thought Stamets reported them as having an annulus?
This is a feature that apparently varies a bit.
Citing Guzman: "Veil well developed as a white cortina that forms a more or less membranous and permanent annulus, but sometimes remaining only as floccose fibrilis on the stipe, white or concolorous with the gills from the spore deposite."
When looking at the collected specimens, which undoubtedly were mature ones, I only observed a fibrillous annular zone.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: daz01]
#21801641 - 06/13/15 10:25 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't know the specific details here, but Stamets' book is full of mistakes, you should read it with a grain of salt.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Byrain]
#21802279 - 06/13/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Damn, man!! Awesome job!! That's super exciting news. Good luck on the continued search!!!!!
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: art2312]
#21802469 - 06/13/15 01:01 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome find!!!! Well done!
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21802500 - 06/13/15 01:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wonderful Anglerfish 
Any chances of posting some of the microscopy?
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Lucis]
#21802742 - 06/13/15 02:56 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome find Anglerfish
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: olive]
#21803114 - 06/13/15 05:00 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Okay, just to sum things up: I told the mycologist who scoped these to P. fimetaria about my finds of P. semilanceata in the same area. He says he'd like to check these out as well to compare to the supposedly P. fimetaria. Meaning he's a bit uncertain after all... I'm going to send him some of them as well, and he's going to get them sequenced. So things are still a bit open.
Exciting, nevertheless!
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21809254 - 06/15/15 04:38 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's exciting, looking forward to hearing about the results
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: woaronun]
#21809262 - 06/15/15 04:46 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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woaronun said: That's exciting, looking forward to hearing about the results
Yeah, me too, although I have some doubts as to the identity - meaning I suspect it to be P. semilanceata. Trouble here is that the microscopic features are so similar between those two species, so we really need specimens with features like obvious permanent ring zone, more abundant veil remnants on the cap margin and also dung as substrate. So I'll keep looking with very keen eyes, while we await DNA.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21812931 - 06/15/15 11:07 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Holy shit!!!!
Anglerfish you are fucking awesome buddy!!! I can't believe one of us finally found the bloody thing! 
I found ringers in dung last year but I never did anything about it. I figured they were stuntzii since they were abundant in the field as well but they were in dung. I may try to see if I kept any.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: psylosymonreturns]
#21813294 - 06/16/15 02:09 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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psylosymonreturns said: Holy shit!!!!
Anglerfish you are fucking awesome buddy!!! I can't believe one of us finally found the bloody thing! 
I found ringers in dung last year but I never did anything about it. I figured they were stuntzii since they were abundant in the field as well but they were in dung. I may try to see if I kept any.
Thanks, but please hold your horses yet a little bit - final verdict is not up yet. Sequencing remains, who knows what that will tell us?
Remembering there have been previous finds where macroscopic features seemed to rhyme better with P. fimetaria than my find here, but even when the sequence was presented no one could tell (or could they?):
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/20822775/fpart/4/vc/1#20822775
Alan, what was the verdict on jobong's supposed fimetaria-hispanica find? When I blast this I get a 99% identity score with P. pelliculosa and what... P. fasciata?? I'm probably not doing this right.
Ignore the rubble above, I think I got the hang of it. Jobong's find matching P. fimetaria 100%. 
If that is correct, we've got something of a guiding star. 
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21813304 - 06/16/15 02:20 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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No verdict on that find yet, I need to scope it more carefully.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#21813315 - 06/16/15 02:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said: No verdict on that find yet, I need to scope it more carefully.
Ah okay. But when I blast the sequence you provided, and type "Psilocybe fimetaria (taxid:181763)" in the "organism" slot, I end up with this:

It says "Ident: 100%". I'm not exactly sure how I should read this?
When using this page, am I not supposed to paste the sequence provided into the larger slot on top, where it says "Enter accession number(s), gi(s), or FASTA sequence(s) "? Now, doing this without choosing anything in the "organism" slot, it apparently gives P. pelliculosa as closest match. Putting P. fimetaria in that slot, it gives a 100% as shown in the screen shot.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21813910 - 06/16/15 09:36 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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The sequence I provided is ITS, not LSU. ITS is a region next to LSU, and there is some overlap - but only 6%. However the 6% that does overlap matches 100%.
If I see the Jobong collection in the next few days I will make a LSU sequence of it so more than 6% can be compared.
BLAST does not score that 6% overlap very highly because it is such a small amount of base pairs. The P. pelliculosa ITS sequence has a lot more matches, so it is scored much more highly. It also has a lot more differences.
LSU is a much more conserved region than ITS, so it doesn't have much resolution at the species level. Most closely related species will have the same sequence, or sequences that are just a couple base pairs different.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#21814980 - 06/16/15 02:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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First look: Amazing! Clearly something special! Look at how it bruises where the stipe is broken. And it grows from old dung. 
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Psilocybe fimetaria (add Chinese gong sound).
Adding to my excitement is the fact that this is the first officially registered find of this species in Norway!
Ahh, Psilocybe fimetaria. Nice!! Congratulations! 
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Naturally, I'm then also curious as to whether these are all what I perceive them to be.
I have no doubt about those being P. semilanceata.
The last couple of years, I found some wierd psilocybes in a sheep pasture together with P. semilanceata. My guess was mutated libs or perhaps fimetaria. They aren't really a perfect match to yours however...
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: knarkkorven]
#21817707 - 06/17/15 04:10 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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knarkkorven said: The last couple of years, I found some wierd psilocybes in a sheep pasture together with P. semilanceata. My guess was mutated libs or perhaps fimetaria. They aren't really a perfect match to yours however...
That is probably liniformans or something.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#21817743 - 06/17/15 04:41 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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knarkkorven said: Ahh, Psilocybe fimetaria. Nice!! Congratulations! 
It is not conclusive until sequenced. I have a feeling they might just be P. semilanceata after all.
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The last couple of years, I found some wierd psilocybes in a sheep pasture together with P. semilanceata. My guess was mutated libs or perhaps fimetaria. They aren't really a perfect match to yours however...

I find very similar looking ones growing among the semilanceata I find in sheep pastures.
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Alan Rockefeller said: That is probably liniformans or something.
I think that is a good suggestion. I'll keep my eyes open and get samples if I find them.
Speaking of P. fimetaria, this old find comes to mind:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6107611
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
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That is probably liniformans or something.
Interesting... I wonder if I saved them and still have them separated. Got to search my collections for them some day.
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Speaking of P. fimetaria, this old find comes to mind
Yeah. I was looking for that thread  The person who found those lived just outside Gothenburg and found them close to the coast on a pasture right below some high voltage power lines. Together with lots of libs of course, even some steriles which I didn't know existed at the time. I convinced him to mail a mushroom to Workman, and the rest is history. One of the very few confirmed P. fimetaria from Sweden.
I really believe you got something there and it's not libs.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: knarkkorven]
#21819409 - 06/17/15 03:10 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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knarkkorven said: I really believe you got something there and it's not libs.

Well, thanks for your enthusiastic comment! 
If you read the full descriptions of the two species, you realise that with only going by microscopy of two specimens as in this case, lacking a few prerequisite macroscopic habits (veil remnants on cap margin, more veil remnants or annulus on stipe, horse dung) of P. fimetaria, there is room for some doubt.
But yes, I do believe they look a bit odd to be P. semilanceata in any case. Who knows what the DNA tells us.
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knarkkorven said: The person who found those lived just outside Gothenburg and found them close to the coast on a pasture right below some high voltage power lines. Together with lots of libs of course, even some steriles which I didn't know existed at the time. I convinced him to mail a mushroom to Workman, and the rest is history. One of the very few confirmed P. fimetaria from Sweden.
It was actually completely idenitified? I got the impression that it ended at Psilocybe sp.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
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Byrain said: I don't know the specific details here, but Stamets' book is full of mistakes, you should read it with a grain of salt.
I dont know about it being fimetaria, what did the cystidia look like. Im still trying to figure out what my guys are...
http://mushroomobserver.org/199723?q=2ad82
Are there any micro details or micrographs...
It seems like these are just libs to me... I will know this fall when i get my hands on lots of specimens and sequence the NA ones. Ive also got lots of tips for this fall and a few old mycologists to show me around where they showed Guzman when he described all these things...
Finally some people who were alive back then and can say something, Hoping to do some major investigating this fall,, i hope.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Joust]
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Joust said: I dont know about it being fimetaria, what did the cystidia look like.
Are there any micro details or micrographs...
I have no data or micrographs myself. I shipped these two off to a professional mycologist who saw the pictures and wanted to scope them to check. He thought the summer season along with the decomposed manure substrate might indicate something other than P. semilanceata, the two main suspects being P. fimetaria and P. liniformans.
These were found 5 days prior to my semilanceata find.
So - the first response I get is "P. fimetaria" then on telling him and showing pictures of semis he suddenly doubted. As mentioned if you read the two microscopic descriptions you realise the margins are small between the two species.
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It seems like these are just libs to me...
What I thought initially, and what the conservative part of me still thinks. Yet it is not necessarily sure that they are the same species just because they both favor manured soil in a pasture. I think uncertainty and interest from seasoned personnel should be followed up. I mean, you never know - if I say "blah!" and leave it, who knows what I might throw away?
Until the DNA is ready, that is.
I should probably ingest some and ask the question what they are, I might get the answer. 
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
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I also forgot I have some pictures of the caps in semi-dry state:
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Anglerfish]
#21821133 - 06/17/15 10:08 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I love all work! I agree, run everything! Each collection is unique and worth studying!
Keep on at it!
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: Joust]
#21822988 - 06/18/15 10:09 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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It was actually completely idenitified? I got the impression that it ended at Psilocybe sp.
Yeah. That's correct. It was actually a long process, at first it looked like semilanceata, then it was a new species, and after more work
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I think your specimen is likely Psilocybe subfimetaria aka P. sierrae.
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Sorry, I meant Psilocybe fimetaria. Best I can do until I can cultivate one. It is not a perfect match but pretty good.
So, well.. not 100% confirmed. Always room for speculations.
Perhaps we have something undocumented up here after all... Yours look pretty similar to the Gothenburg mushrooms. Or perhaps it's just a mutated semilanceata, but bluing so high up on the stipe is very unusual, and at the same time growing on dung... that's what I regard as promising.
There are some different species being named fimetaria, check out:
germany: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/15126655/fpart/1/vc/1
this was found in UK 2011: http://i56.tinypic.com/2gv2b8h.jpg
pnw: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Forum3&Number=3487396 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Forum3&Number=3487396
also see: http://www.asturnatura.com/fotografia/setas-hongos/psilocybe-fimetaria-p-d-orton-watling-1/5978.html
and here's a photo I saved from a forum some years ago but don't remember anything more about it other than it was taken in Sweden and I found the shapes interesting.
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Re: Deconica sp. or perhaps early Psilocybe semilanceata? [Re: knarkkorven]
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It was actually completely idenitified? I got the impression that it ended at Psilocybe sp.
Yeah. That's correct. It was actually a long process, at first it looked like semilanceata, then it was a new species, and after more work
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I think your specimen is likely Psilocybe subfimetaria aka P. sierrae.
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Sorry, I meant Psilocybe fimetaria. Best I can do until I can cultivate one. It is not a perfect match but pretty good.
So, well.. not 100% confirmed. Always room for speculations.
Well, what we have are basically two described species with certain overlapping characteristics, the seemingly most significant ones being macroscopic, without considering DNA sequencing. But then there are also certain deviaton from the norm in both species. For instance: P. fimetaria might sometimes lack an annulus. P. semilanceata might sometimes almost have a complete annulus.
The following picture is a P. semilanceata I found on Tuesday this week:

The next picture are dried specimens of P. fimetaria found in Oregon in 1968:

You know what dried P. semilanceata looks like. What would you call these two mushrooms?
Can you point out obvious differences?
I'm not trying to say any of these are not what they're supposed to be, but merely trying to point out the obvious difficulties separating the species.
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Perhaps we have something undocumented up here after all... Yours look pretty similar to the Gothenburg mushrooms. Or perhaps it's just a mutated semilanceata, but bluing so high up on the stipe is very unusual, and at the same time growing on dung... that's what I regard as promising.
Be aware that this was heavily composted dung - e.g. becoming like soil. As for bluing on the stipe, I find this to occur quite frequently in (what I regard as being) P. semilanceata. I have pictures but need to search a bit to find them.
Other than that, this quote from Guzman in "The Genus Psilocybe" is kind of interesting as well:
DISCUSSION. P. fimetaria is very close to P. semilanceata (Fr. ex Secr.) Kumm. and to P. callosa (Fr. ex Fr.) Que!. from which it differs in the annulus and non-papillate pileus with the first case, and in the size of the spores in the second case, in addition to the coprophilous habitat. It is possible to find intermediate forms between these species which are difficult to understand, at least in herbarium collections. All the "P. semilanceata" found in herbarium with non papillate pileus, coprophilous or subcoprophilous habitat, and annulus or subannulus are considered here as P. fimetaria.
Looking at the last link you posted though, I'm thinking perhaps they could look a bit like P. liniformans:
http://mycologie.catalogne.free.fr/ImagesPhoto2009-1/Psilocybe_liniformans_1.jpg
I'll obviously have to try to understand the DNA sequencing process a bit better, then we'll have to try to make a collective effort trying to gather specimens and get them through the whole mill to see what results we get.
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