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Species: | P. africanus
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Panaeolus africanus Ola'h
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Panaeolus africanus | |
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![]() | gills on hymenium |
![]() | cap is convex |
![]() ![]() | hymenium is adnexed or adnate |
![]() | stipe is bare |
![]() | spore print is black |
![]() | ecology is saprotrophic |
![]() | edibility: psychoactive |
Panaeolus africanus is a little brown mushroom that contains irregular amounts of the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin.[1] It has been found in central Africa and southern Sudan.[1]
This is a little brown mushroom that grows on hippopotamus and elephant dung and has black spores. The cap is up to 2 cm in diameter, gray, conic, and often with scaly cracks. It is viscid when moist and the flesh is grey to white. The gills are grayish when young and turn black with a mottled appearance as the spores mature. The stem is 4 cm long by 5 mm thick, and is pruinose at the top. The spores are black, rather variable, 13 x 9 μm, and shaped like almonds. Macroscopically, this species resembles Panaeolus semiovatus var. phalaenarum.[1]
Reported from central Africa to the southern regions of the Sudan. Probably more widely distributed. Found on hippopotamus and elephant dung in the spring or during the rainy seasons.[1]