Biology:Gymnopilus validipes
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Short description: Species of fungus
| Gymnopilus validipes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hymenogastraceae |
| Genus: | Gymnopilus |
| Species: | G. validipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Gymnopilus validipes (Peck) Hesler
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| Synonyms | |
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Cortinarius validipes Gymnopolis magna | |
| Gymnopilus validipes | |
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 | gills on hymenium |
 | cap is convex |
 | hymenium is adnexed or adnate |
 | stipe has a ring |
 | spore print is yellow-orange |
 | ecology is saprotrophic |
 | edibility: psychoactive |
Gymnopilus validipes is a mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It is widely distributed in North America and Europe.
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 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 and psilocin, the latter at a concentration of around 0.12%.[1]
Habitat and formation
Gymnopilus validipes is found growing gregarious (in groups) to cespitose (in dense clumps) on tree stumps, hardwood logs and debris, widespread in the United States , common from the Great Lakes and eastward.
See also
- Psilocybin mushrooms
- List of Psilocybin mushrooms
- List of Gymnopilus species
References
- Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
- Hesler, L. R. (1969). North American species of Gymnopilus. New York: Hafner. 117 pp.
Wikidata ☰ Q5625033 entry
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