Biology:Psilocybe uxpanapensis

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Short description: Species of fungus

Psilocybe uxpanapensis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Psilocybe
Species:
P. uxpanapensis
Binomial name
Psilocybe uxpanapensis
Guzmán (1979)

Psilocybe uxpanapensis is a species of entheogenic mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae.[1] The mushroom contains the hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Mexican mycologist Gastón Guzmán described this mushroom in 1979 as a novel species: the first hallucinogenic mushroom to be discovered in an undisturbed tropical forest.[2] Psilocybe uxpanapensis is one of the many tropical species of fungi in Mexico at risk of disappearing due to deforestation.[3]

See also

  • List of psilocybin mushrooms
  • Psilocybin mushrooms

References

  1. "A worldwide geographical distribution of the neurotropic fungi, an analysis and discussion". Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto: Sezione Archeologia, Storia, Scienze Naturali 14: 189–280. 2000. http://www.museocivico.rovereto.tn.it/UploadDocs/104_art09-Guzman%20&%20C.pdf. 
  2. Guzmán G. (1979). "Observations on the evolution of Psilocybe and description of four new hallucinogenic species from Mexican tropical forests". Beihefte zur Sydowia Annales Mycologici Series II 8: 168–81. 
  3. Guzmán G. (1998). "Inventorying the fungi of Mexico". Biodiversity and Conservation 7 (3): 369–84. doi:10.1023/A:1008833829473. 

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