Three New Fungi from China: A Potentially Psychoactive Psilocybe and Two Deconica Species
Hai-Ying Feng, Jia-Xin Li, Wen-Qiang Yang, Bin Cao, Rui-Lin Zhao, Seung-Yoon Oh · 2025
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Description
Hai-Ying Feng and five co-authors describe three new fungi from China in related mushroom genera, in a paper from twenty twenty-five. One genus includes species known for mind-altering effects. Both genera grow on dead matter and spread widely, yet Chinese records for them were thin.
Dozens of specimens were studied with close looks at form plus gene-based family trees. Alongside known species, three proved new to science. One has a white cap with streaked veils and bruises blue, found in Chongqing. Of the other two, one grows on rotting wood and the other on dung in high meadows. At least six more unnamed kinds turned up. The finds widen the known range of these fungi in China.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hai-Ying Feng, Jia-Xin Li, Wen-Qiang Yang, Bin Cao, Rui-Lin Zhao, Seung-Yoon Oh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |