Pluteus americanus
Pluteus americanus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Pluteaceae |
Genus: | Pluteus |
Species: | P. americanus
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Binomial name | |
Pluteus americanus (P. Banerjee & Sundb.) Justo, E.F. Malysheva & Minnis (2014)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Pluteus salicinus var. americanus Banerjee & Sundberg (1993) |
Pluteus americanus | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or flat | |
saprotrophic | |
Edibility is psychoactive |
Pluteus americanus is a North American and Russian
psychedelic mushroom
that grows on hardwoods.
Taxonomy
The species was originally collected in Michigan by Alexander H. Smith on September 3, 1957 on Populus. In 1993, Banerjee & Sundberg described it as Pluteus salicinus var. americanus. In 2014 it was elevated to species rank by Alfredo Justo, Ekaterina Malysheva and Drew Minnis.[1]
Description
- Cap: 1 – 6 cm in diameter, at first campanulate to hemispherical, expanding to convex at maturity. It often has a low, broad umbo and a darker squamulose cap center. The margin can be radially fibrillose. The color is brown to grey, often darker towards the center, occasionally staining blue. Dry to somewhat viscid when moist, changing to a lighter color as the cap dries out.
- Gills: Crowded, broad, free, at first white, becoming pink in maturity. Sometimes bruising blue.
- Stipe: 1.5 — 6.5 long, 0.3 — 0.6 cm thick, more or less equal or slightly swollen at the base, white with grayish-green to bluish-green tones, especially near the base or where damaged. Ring absent.
- Taste: Like Pelargonium leaves, occasionally mild.
- Odor: Strong, like leaves of Pelargonium. Occasionally mild.
- Spores: Pink, smooth, ellipsoid, 6.5 — 9.5 (-11) x 4.5 - 7 (-7.5) μm. Spore printpink-flesh colored to brown-pink.
- Microscopic features: Pleurocystidia common, metuloid, Clamp connectionscommon.
Habitat and distribution
Pluteus americanus grows solitary or gregarious on the wood of Fraxinus, Acer saccharum, Betula papyrifera and Populus in July through October and is widely distributed across Eastern North America, and may occur in the west. It is also found in the Russian Far East (Primorsky Territory).[1]
See also
- List of Pluteus species
- List of Psilocybin mushrooms
References
- ^ doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.180.1.1. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04.