SPECIES ATLAS · PSILOCYBE
Psilocybe subcaerulipes
Named by Hongo, 1958
Psilocybin record: reported (one or older reports)- 1958name published
- 1analysis on file
- 0found nothing
- 85world records (GBIF)
- 0Canadian records
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.
Hongo described Psilocybe subcaerulipes in 1958 in the Journal of Japanese Botany 33: 44, from Honshu. Yokoyama's 1976 P. argentipes, the subject of the first Japanese psilocybin isolation, is now treated by Index Fungorum as the same species.
- Named
- Hongo, 1958
- Other names in the records
- Psilocybe argentipes K. Yokoy. (1976), Psilocybe taiwanensis Zhu L. Yang & Guzmán (per GBIF), Psilocybe thaizapoteca Guzmán, Karun. & Ram.-Guill. (per GBIF)
- Type specimen
- Honshu, Japan (Index Fungorum: anon., 2 Jun. 1957, 'type'). (Index Fungorum record, Psilocybe subcaerulipes; pin = Wikidata coordinates (Q13989))
- Name record
- Species Fungorum name record
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.
- 1981
Reported Psilocybin isolated from P. argentipes, and determined in specimens of some other mushrooms; Bradshaw Table S1 lists the paper for both names
What the record doesn’t show: The single analysis was published under the synonym P. argentipes, and its text was not read.
Records on file.
GBIF, the global biodiversity database, held 85 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.
Sources
- Species Fungorum name record
- GBIF species record
- GBIF occurrence counts by country
- GBIF Canadian records
- Wikidata, Honshu (pin coordinates)
- Koike et al. 1981, J. Nat. Prod. 44: 362-365 (Crossref metadata; text not read)
- Bradshaw et al. 2022, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88(24), Table S1 (literature review of Psilocybe chemistry; full text PMC9764976)
- Index Fungorum record, Psilocybe argentipes
- Stijve & Kuyper 1988, Persoonia 13(4): 463-465 (Naturalis repository, full text)
- Index Fungorum record, Psilocybe subcaerulipes
Compiled from the sources above; last checked .