Psilocybe chuxiongensis T. Ma & K.D. Hyde, Phytotaxa, 2014

Ma, Tao, Ling, Xiao-Fei & Hyde, Kevin D., 2016, Species of Psilocybe (Hymenogastraceae) from Yunnan, southwest China, Phytotaxa 284 (3), pp. 181-193 : 191

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https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.284.3.3

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Psilocybe chuxiongensis T. Ma & K.D. Hyde, Phytotaxa
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Psilocybe chuxiongensis T. Ma & K.D. Hyde, Phytotaxa View in CoL 156(4): 213, 2014

This species is found in subtropical habitats of central Yunnan Province, and characterized by hemisphaeric to hemisphaeric-convex pilei, the absence of annulus, large ellipsoid, elongate-ellipsoid to subhexagonal basidiospores (13–16 × 8–10.5 × 7.5–10 μm) and a coprophilous or subcoprophilous habitat. It is closely related to the wide-spread subtropical species P. cubensis (Earle) Singer and the pantropical species P. subcubensis Guzmán because of the similar basidiomata and microscopic characteristics (basidiospores, pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia), as well as having a similar habitat ( Guzmán 1983, 1995).

Guzman, G. (1983) The genus Psilocybe. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 74, Cramer, Vaduz, 439 pp.

Guzman, G. (1995) Supplement to the monograph of the genus Psilocybe. In: Petrini, O. & Horak, E. (Eds.) Taxonomic monographs of Agaricales, vol. Bibliotheca Mycol 159. Cramer, Berlin, pp. 91 - 141.