Psilocybe gallaeciae is a species of psilocybin mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. The first specimens for science were delivered to the Non-Vascular Plants Laboratory of the University of Vigo-CUVI (collected in the same area of Lagoas-Marcosende-CUVI, and which did not appear in any scientific bibliography) by C. Covelo Roma in 1996, and later registered by J. Comesaña in the municipalities of Monfero (province of La Coruña) and Nigrán (province of Pontevedra) in 1997, and published in the Bulletin of the Mycological Society of Madrid 27:185 as a new species in 2003 by the Mexican mycologist Gastón Guzmán and María Luisa Castro, from the University of Vigo.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Psilocybe gallaeciae being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Psilocybe aztecorum
- Hypholoma ericaeum
- Psilocybe fimetaria
- Panaeolus fimicola
- Psilocybe muliercula
- Gymnopus impudicus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Hymenogastraceae
- Genus
- Psilocybe
- Species
- Psilocybe gallaeciae
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