Gymnopilus Validipes
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''Gymnopilus validipes'' is a mushroom in the family
Hymenogastraceae The Hymenogastraceae is a family of fungi in the order Agaricales with both agaric and false-truffle shaped fruitbodies. Formerly, prior to molecular analyses, the family was restricted to the false-truffle genera. The mushroom genus '' Psilo ...
. It is widely distributed in
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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 In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...
''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 Psilocybin, also known as 4-phosphoryloxy-''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine (4-PO-DMT), is a natural product, naturally occurring tryptamine alkaloid and Investigational New Drug, investigational drug found in more than List of psilocybin mushroom ...
and
psilocin Psilocin, also known as 4-hydroxy-''N'',''N''-dimethyltryptamine (4-HO-DMT), is a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic. It is present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocy ...
, the former at a concentration of around 0.12%.Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World
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Habitat and formation

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


See also

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Psilocybin mushrooms Psilocybin mushrooms, or psilocybin-containing mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms or as shrooms, are a type of hallucinogenic mushroom and a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain the prodrug psilocybin, which turns into t ...
* List of Psilocybin mushrooms *
List of Gymnopilus species This is a list of species in the agaric fungi genus ''Gymnopilus''. There are about 200 species in the widespread genus. *'' G. abramsii'' Murrill (1917) *'' G. aculeatus'' (Bres. & Roum.) Singer (1951) *'' G. acystidiatus'' Guz ...


References

* * Hesler, L. R. (1969). North American species of Gymnopilus. New York: Hafner. 117 pp. {{Taxonbar, from=Q5625033 validipes Entheogens Psychoactive fungi Psychedelic tryptamine carriers Fungi of North America Fungi of Europe Taxa named by Charles Horton Peck Fungus species