[4] P. subaeruginosa "Subs" P. cyanescens "Wavy Caps" P. allenii P. weraroa P. makarorae P. cubensis "Magic Mushrooms" P. serbica P. medullosa P. zapotecorum P. aucklandiae P. pelliculosa "Conifer Psilocybe" P. alutacea P. angulospora P. semilanceata "Liberty Caps" P. fuscofulva The species epithet weraroa is taken from the former generic name, which refers to the type locality.

wide, roundish, ovate (wider at the base and tapering towards the end, egg-shaped) or elongated and elliptic (tapered at the base and apex with a swollen mid-section), base decurrent (extending down the stem below the insertion) or rounded and blunt, margin folded and often torn, light brown when young, becoming french-grey or pale blue-grey, sometimes pallid green in age, longitudinally fibrillose causing a finely striated appearance, becoming smooth, polished, glabrous, tacky and leathery in age, slowly bruising blue or greenish when injured, drying yellow to dingy brown.

Gleba sepia-brown to chocolate-brown, cellular, coarsely shaped, often elongated, laterally compressed, sparse, chambered and gill-like.

Spores 11–15(17) x 5–8 μm in size, smooth, sepia-coloured to purple-brown, elliptic-ovate or elliptical in shape, rounded at one end with a thin epispore.

[9] Solitary to crowded on decaying wood buried in forest leaf litter, often on the rotting branches of Melicytus ramiflorus.

[3] Clavogaster virescens is similar in appearance and habitat, but the gleba form a reddish brown chambered mass enclosed inside a sack-like structure within the peridium.