Psilocybe mairei

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Psilocybe mairei
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Psilocybe
Species:
P. mairei
Binomial name
Psilocybe mairei
Singer

Psilocybe mairei is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It is found in Algeria and Morocco and contains the medicinal compound psilocybin. [1] The oldest example of rock art suggesting use of psychedelic mushrooms might depict P. mairei. In 1992, the Italian ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini reported finding a painted mural from Tassili n'Ajjer, in the Sahara desert in southeast Algeria dated 7000 to 9000 BCE portraying mushrooms, [2] later tentatively identified as P. mairei. [3]

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References

  1. Gastón Guzmán; John W. Allen; Jochen Gartz (1998). "A worldwide geographical distribution of the neurotropic fungi, an analysis and discussion" (PDF). Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto (14): 189–280. (on Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto)
  2. Samorini G. (1992). "The oldest representations of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the world (Sahara Desert, 9000–7000 B.P.)". Integration. 2 (3): 69–78.
  3. Akers BP, Ruiz JF, Piper A, Ruck CA (2011). "A prehistoric mural in Spain depicting neurotropic Psilocybe mushrooms?". Economic Botany. 65 (2): 121–8. doi:10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5. S2CID   3955222.