Drug info - Conocybe Smithii

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Conocybe Smithii

Taxonomy
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Genus: Conocybe
Species: C. smithii

• Cap: 0.3 - 1(1.3) cm across Conic to convex but expands to nearly plane in age, with a distinct umbo, smooth, ochraceous tawny to cinnamon-brown, darker at edges, glistening when wet, hygrophanous, even to striate when moist. Lightens when it dries, turning a tan color.
• Gills: adnate to adnexed, crowded to subdistant, narrow to moderately broad, pale grayish yellow to brown with whitish edges, darkening to rusty cinnamon brown in age.
• Spores: Cinnamon brown, (6.5)7.0 - 9.0 x 4.0 - 4.5(5) micrometers smooth and ellipsoid with thick walls and a small but distinct germ-pore.
• Stipe: (1)2 to 5(7.5) cm long, .75 - 1(1.5) mm thick, mostly equal but often slightly swollen at the base. Fragile, whitish with fine fibrils but becoming smooth, lacks an annulus, slightly twisting striatulations, often slightly grayish at the base when young, becoming an azure shade of blue in age, quickly bruising blue when handled.
• Microscopic features: Subcapitate cheilocystidia.

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This mushroom has been reportedly found in Canada, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. It is commonly found in wet, swamp-like conditions, and is often found growing in sphagnum moss. Conocybe smithii can be found in the late spring/early summer, and contains psilocybin, psilocin, and baeocystin.

Drugs-Forum Psilocybin Mushroom Species Index

REFERENCE:
Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.