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Psilocybe coronilla

garland roundhead

Psilocybe coronilla — 2026-08-28
Scientific identification
Psilocybe coronilla (Bull.) Noordel.
Family
Hymenogastraceae
Class
Agaricomycetes
Genus
Psilocybe

Names across languages

  • English: garland roundhead
  • German: Krönchen-Träuschling
  • Finnish: Nurmikaulussieni
  • Estonian: Kroonvärvik
  • Russian: Псилоцибе корончатая

The scientific profile

From the latest record: 2026-08-28.

Hymenium

Gills close to moderately spaced; pale grey when young, becoming purplish-grey to dark grey-brown or nearly black with maturity; edges often whitish

Cap

Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; smooth, slightly sticky when fresh, soon dry; golden-yellow, ochre-yellow to brownish-yellow; young margin may retain white veil fragments

Hymenium Attachment

Adnate, sometimes with a slight decurrent tooth

Stipe

Short, cylindrical, white to cream, sometimes yellowish below; smooth to finely fibrillose; base slightly tapered with white mycelial threads; membranous white ring persistent to fragile, characteristically grooved above and darkened by deposited spores

Spore print

Spore print dark purple-brown to blackish

Description

Saprobic in lawns, meadows, pastures, parks, gardens; especially nutrient-rich soils; alone, scattered or gregariously; summer to late autumn

Edibility

Poisonous

Uses & compounds

Crustulinol reported

Fruit body

Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~2–6 cm long and ~0.4–1 cm thick

Dimensions

Cap ∅ ~1.5–5(–6) cm

Flesh

White, soft, unchanging when cut

Chemical reactions

KOH red on cap surface

Odour

Mushroomy

Taste

Indistinct

Microscopy

Spores amygdaliform to ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, ~7–10 × 4–5.5 µm, with a small germ pore; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia clavate to broadly cylindrical; clamp connections

Overview

Golden-yellow grassland stropharioid with a grooved ring and dark purple-brown spores

1995). Persoonia 16(1): 128.

Field encounters

28/Aug/2026, 5:33 PM

Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti

Urban park, mawned grassland, in disturbed nutrient-rich soil

59°26'31.4"N 24°47'28.6"E

🌡️ 21°C 🌤️ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 130° SE->NW, 9 km/h

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