A sequestrate Psilocybe from Scotland

Abstract

Summary A purplish brown-spored, gasteroid basidiomycete found in association with Psilocybe semilanceata in Midlothian, Scotland is shown by molecular methods to be only a morphotype of P. semilanceata. The significance of the results in relation to many similar sequestrate collections of so-called members of the genera Cyttarophyllum, Galeropsis, Gastrocybe and Weraroa in national herbaria are investigated.