Koae-ea-lekhoaba

Psilocybe maluti, with the common name koae-ea-lekhoaba, is a mushroom of the family Hymenogastraceae that grows on the dung of herbivores such as cattle and horses. It was described from South Africa in 2024 and is named after the Maluti Mountains of southern Africa. It grows in the highland regions of Lesotho and South Africa, appearing between November and February. The cap is 5 to 20 millimetres across, golden to caramel when mature, and the stem bruises bluish. Wikipedia says there is anecdotal evidence that it was used spiritually and traditionally by Basotho healers, and that this is the only documented evidence of traditional hallucinogenic mushroom use in Africa. The article says the traditional name comes from Basotho observations of crows, lekhoaba, pecking at the mushrooms, and from koae, a word for tobacco.