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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

118 pages

DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v6.i4

Issue price - $128.00

The Neurotropic Psilocybe (Fr.) Kumm. (Agaricales, Strophariaceae) in Brazil: A Revision of the Known Species, the Fırst Record of P. wrightii, and the Synonymy of P. caeruleoannulata

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

Vagner G. Cortez
Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Botanica, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

ABSTRACT

A discussion of the 42 names related with Psilocybe reported from Brazil is presented, of which 29 are accepted species and 21 belong to the neurotropic fungi. The oldest references came from 1856, 1889, and 1906, with the general works on fungi or Agaricales by Montagne, Spegazzini, and Rick, respectively, although the studies in the genus started with Guzmán in 1978. The neurotropic fungus Psilocybe wrightii, only known from Argentina, is reported for the first time from Brazil, and P. uruguayensis, another neurotropic fungus, is considered a synonym of P. caeruleoannulata, which is reported now from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.