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Psilocybe montana (Pers.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 71 (1871)

Psilocybe atrorufa sensu auct.
Agaricus montanus Pers., Observ. mycol. (Copenhagen) 1: 9 (1796)
Psilocybe physaloides (Bull.) Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Sér. 2 5: 256 [238 repr.] (1872)
Deconica physaloides (Bull.) P. Karst., Hattsvampar 32: 516 (1879)
Deconica montana (Pers.) P.D. Orton, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 43(2): 175 (1960)

Habitat: On soil, especially amongst mosses such as Polytrichum spp., on heathland and moorland, and rarely along field and woodland margins, and by roadsides.

Notes: Common to occasional but widespread.

Distribution: E: c, S: o, ROI: !, Other: Channel Islands: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 57388; Scotland: K(M) 85176; ROI: K(M) 85219

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Agarics, 2nd part: Entolomataceae, Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae, Agaricaceae, Coprinaceae, Bolbitiaceae 4: 368 pp. (1995), p. 348, pl. 448
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Agarics, 2nd part: Entolomataceae, Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae, Agaricaceae, Coprinaceae, Bolbitiaceae 4: 368 pp. (1995), as Psilocybe physaloides, p. 348, pl. 449
D:, in Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 5 Strophariaceae & Coprinaceae p.p.: Hypholoma, Melanotus, Psilocybe, Stropharia, Lacrymaria & Panaeolus 5: 121 pp. (1987), p. 43
D+I:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 4: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Strophariaceae, Tricholomataceae (3), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 4: 191 pp. (1999), p. 33

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