Psilocybe_silvatica

<i>Psilocybe silvatica</i>

Psilocybe silvatica

Species of fungus

Psilocybe silvatica is a psilocybin mushroom in the section Semilanceatae of the genus Psilocybe. Psilocybin is the main active compound.

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Taxonomy

The fungus was first described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1889 as Psathyra silvatica.[2] Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith transferred it to Psilocybe in 1958.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Psilocybe silvatica (Peck) Singer & A.H. Sm". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  2. [2]
    Peck CH. (1889). "Report of the Botanist (1888)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 42: 101–44 (see p. 116).
  3. [3]
    Singer R, Smith AH (1958). "Taxonomic monograph of Psilocybe sect. Caerulescentes". Mycologia. 50: 262–303 (see p. 277). doi:10.2307/3756197. JSTOR 3756197.
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