First person to use this name on MO: Danny Newman
Editors: walt sturgeon, Joseph D. Cohen
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Rank: Species
Status: Accepted
Name: Psilocybe papuana
Author: Guzmán & E. Horak
Citation: Sydowia 31(1-6): 49 (1979) [1978]
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Psilocybe
Observations: This species reminds of the hallucinogenic P. caerulescens MURR., reported from the SE of the United States and Mexico (SINGER & SMITH, 1958). The shape and size of the cheilocystidia, however, are distinctly seperating the two species.