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 Psilocybe novae-zelandiae
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: ZT8680
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand | 
Caption: ZT67-104, Holotype
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: top: vesiculose pleurocystidia (or 2 types of cheilocystidia?). Bottom: cheilocystidia.
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD | |
Article: Johnston, P.R.; Buchanan, P.K. (1995). The genus Psilocybe (Agaricales) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33(3): 379-388 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus 15-25 mm diam., hemispherical or convex, expanding to umbonate to more or less flattened; slightly tacky, glabrous; dark brown to fuscous, striate to edge, hygrophanous, drying to orange-brown. Gills broadly adnate, pale rust brown; edge concolorous. Stipe 30-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindrical, covered with whitish appressed fibrils, pale brown or concolorous with pileus. Veil cortinoid, remaining visible as fibrils on stipe in older fruit bodies, never forming an annulate ring. Basidia 21-30 x 6.5-8.5 µm, cylindrical, or sometimes slightly constricted near centre, 4-spored, clamped. Cheilocystidia 13-26 x 4.5-6 µm, more or less cylindrical, or with a poorly differentiated, broad, flexuous neck. Pleurocystidia absent. Spores (7.5-)9-10.5(-12.5) x 6-7 x 5-6 µm, average 9.5 x 6.3x5.8 µm, in face view subrhomboid, in side view elliptical; wall brown, smooth, <l µm thick, with apical pore.
Habitat: On soil and litter under Nothofagus
Distribution: Known only from type collection, New Zealand: Mid Canterbury
Notes: Macroscopic features of description based on Guzman & Horak (1978:51-53) and Guzman (1983: 294-295); microscopic features from examination of type specimen.
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