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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2004, Volume6

98 pages

DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v6.i1

Issue price - $128.00

The Hallucinogenic Species of Psilocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. (Agaricomycetideae) in Colombia, Their Indian Use, New Records, and New Species

Gaston Guzman
Instituto de Ecologia, Apartada Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, México

Florencia Ramirez-Guillen
Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Mabel Torres
Instituto de Ecologia, Veracruz, Mexico; and Grupo Recursos Vegetales, Universidad Tecnologica de Choco, Choco, Colombia

ABSTRACT

A checklist of 22 species of Psilocybe reported from Colombia is discussed, of which 13 belong to the neurotropic mushrooms. The oldest reference is from 1978. A new record (P. plutonia), a neurotropic fungus, and four new species from a tropical rain forest in the Choco region (Paci. c coast of the country) are described. Two of them belong to the neurotropic species for their taxonomic features. The probable use of the neurotropic species by the Indians is discussed, based in golden pectoral figures found in Darien and studied by Schultes and Bright in 1979.