Mycena fera

Mycena fera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae
Genus: Mycena
Species: M. fera
Binomial name
Mycena fera
Maas Geest. & de Meijer (1997)[1]

Mycena fera is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Found in South America, the fruit bodies of the fungus are bioluminescent.[2]

See also

References

  1. Maas Geesteranus RA, de Meijer AAR. (1997). Mycenae Paranaenses. Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde 97. p. 31.
  2. Desjardin DE, Oliveira AG, Stevani CV. (2008). "Fungi bioluminescence revisited". Photochemical & Photobiological sciences 7 (2): 170–82. doi:10.1039/b713328f. PMID 18264584.

External links

Mycena fera in Index Fungorum


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