Dark purple spore print, strong psilocybe odour, bruised blue at the bottom of the stipe
Barnhouse collection, from https://www.shroomery.org/... and observation 505794
Spores measure (8.9) 9.7 – 11.1 (11.2) × (5.2) 5.3 – 6.2 (7.3) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 – 1.9 (2) ; N = 20
Me = 10.4 × 6 µm ; Qe = 1.8
Cheilocystidia abundant, narrow, occasionally forked. Pleurocystidia not observed.
Spore sizes:
10.33 5.28
9.82 6.25
9.65 5.68
10.83 6.21
10.84 5.80
10.24 5.92
10.84 6.12
9.12 5.20
11.07 6.18
11.16 6.14
10.76 7.25
10.95 5.80
10.67 5.58
9.73 6.10
10.99 6.60
10.80 5.78
11.18 5.74
10.64 5.93
10.40 6.18
8.87 5.26
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Image #1: Spores / basidiole 1000x in KOH
Image #2: Cheilocystidia crush mount 400x in KOH
Image #3: 400x in KOH
Image #4: 1000x in KOHc
Image #5: 1000x in KOH
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jul. 20, 2024.
Spores: N=10
measuring
5.64 x 5.36
5.65 x 5.19
5.26 x 5.08
5.67 x 4.72
5.26 x 4.27
4.25 x 4.00
4.78 x 4.12
5.09 x 4.55
5.30 x 4.67
5.74 x 4.98
Tentative.
Micro to come.
Found by Phil Dekat,
White fungus growing out of insect
On the underside of a log,
Near pine/doug fir/madrone,
There are 2 specimens
On Juncus seeds??
Lost material for microscopy
In fen, among mosses, often submerged in Sphagnum
asexual morph of Isarioid Cordyceps sp
At the 2019 NAMA foray. Growing on a beetle larva.
Coll. Hiromi Karagiannis
Found in a park in some wood chips, buried under leaves. Stipe is sort of spongey? Hard to describe
Claviceps "purpurea-IN01"
DNA - ITS - Nanopore
Spores: N=22
10.27 x 7.25
8.99 x 6.59
9.42 x 5.96
8.51 x 6.92
9.33 x 6.35
10.38 x 6.22
8.86 x 6.49
9.66 x 7.46
8.93 x 6.19
9.40 x 7.54
10.44 x 7.36
10.36 x 7.20
9.14 x 6.64
9.38 x 6.99
9.61 x 6.89
9.03 x 6.39
8.14 x 6.64
10.54 x 7.46
9.57 x 7.78
10.18 x 7.60
8.95 x 6.69
8.36 x 6.63
Cheilocystidia: N=27
16.18 x 7.47
20.74 x 8.95
17.30 x 8.36
16.19 x 6.84
20.32 x 8.29
16.65 x 7.99
18.16 x 10.99
16.74 x 8.07
17.69 x 10.07
20.25 x 9.82
17.41 x 9.01
19.01 x 7.47
15.21 x 10.43
17.31 x 6.69
15.93 x 7.32
19.26 x 9.89
17.42 x 9.06
20.08 x 11.36
17.24 x 8.45
19.97 x 9.49
17.03 x 9.83
18.60 x 8.25
17.82 x 8.95
18.34 x 10.30
22.02 x 8.49
17.80 x 7.44
20.39 x 7.91
Pleurocystidia:N=11
19.85 x 8.33
17.02 x 9.04
15.48 x 8.17
17.69 x 9.06
16.17 x 8.26
16.93 x 8.37
18.16 x 7.91
16.01 x 8.28
9.01 x 8.97
18.14 x 10.35
19.66 x 13.87
Seems to be on a caterpillar? Unburned site.
Most likely the “flabelliform” anamorph of Xylaria atropictor nom.prov.
Found in a creek
This is the type collection of Psilocybe washintonensis, Collected by AH Smith on September 21, 1941.
This is a nonbluing species which should be moved into Deconica.