maynardjameskeenan said:

Alan Rockefeller said:

http://mushroomobserver.org/obs/88084

Conclusion:  The bluing Conocybe species have been transferred into Pholiotina.  Spore size matches Pholiotina smithii better than P. cyanopus. BLAST shows  that the closest DNA match is 85% similar to Conocybe coprophila.

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Does this mean that all active conocybes fit better in the genus Pholiotina, or just smithii?

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Might be the first time that Knarkkorven has been mentioned on a US government website.  : )

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Yes, I only think I have been linked to from a EMCDDA report about psilocybin mushrooms before

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This collection is only 5 nucleotides different from http://mushroomobserver.org/134561, a maynardjameskeenan collection from Lebanon, Oregon.  Whether that means it's the same species or different is a matter of opinion, but it's super close in any case.

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This is interesting. Wasn't there like 3 differences between P. cyanescens and P. allenii when you described it as a new species?

I found the bluing Conocybe on the same spot for the following 3 years, but haven't found any recently. The ground around the tracks was pretty muddy from cows walking there one summer and then the farmer filled it up with gravel. I have also searched a lot of other habitat never found any more. It seems to be very rare.

In 2010 (one year before the Conocybe find) the same place looked like this:



It was a very special habitat... Good memories!

knarkkorven said:

In 2010 (one year before the Conocybe find) the same place looked like this:



It was a very special habitat... Good memories!

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Really digging that middle shot.

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A very interesting and rare species in our dataset is Pholiotina cyanopus, for which we
analyzed three fruiting bodies from a single fungarium collection. P. cyanopus contained
0.821–1.360 mg/g BA, 0.247–0.565 mg/g NB, less than or equal to 0.062 mg/g PS, and less
than or equal to 0.859 mg/g PSB. Our results were very similar to the previous study by
Halama et al. [13], who also reported a trace concentration of AE.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232214068

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