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SPECIES ATLAS · PLUTEUS

Pluteus glaucotinctus

Named by E. Horak, 1977

Psilocybin record: reported (one analysis)

A history of a name and a chemistry record, not an identification guide. No name, picture or description can show that a wild mushroom is safe, and poisonous mushrooms are mistaken for magic mushrooms. If someone may have eaten a wild mushroom, call a poison centre without waiting for symptoms: 1-844-POISON-X in most of Canada, 1-800-463-5060 in Quebec. Call 911 if they’re unconscious, not breathing or having a seizure.

How it was named.

Egon Horak described Pluteus glaucotinctus in 1977 in the Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 47: 88, from the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gotvaldová et al. cite a 2014 study treating it as a multicontinental species complex.

Named
E. Horak, 1977
Type specimen
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Index Fungorum). (Index Fungorum record, Pluteus glaucotinctus; pin = Wikidata coordinates (Q974))
The pin marks the type locality at the level of detail the record gives: one historical collection, not a range or a place to look. Land outlines: Natural Earth.

The psilocybin record.

Every analysis we could verify, oldest first, including results that found nothing. No amounts are given: they vary between collections and this is not a potency guide.

  1. 2022

    Reported Psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin, norbaeocystin and aeruginascin detected in one fruiting body from one collection

    Method: UHPLC-MS/MS. Gotvaldová et al. 2022, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 23: 14068 (full text PMC9693126)

What the record doesn’t show: The only analysis is a single fruiting body, and the name may cover several species.

Records on file.

GBIF, the global biodiversity database, held 47 occurrence records under this name, 0 of them from Canada, when we checked on October 25, 2026. Records include unverified observations and old misidentifications, so counts show where people have recorded the name, not where it grows.

See the name on GBIF

Sources

Compiled from the sources above; last checked .

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