Roridomyces roridus

Roridomyces roridus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae
Genus: Roridomyces
Species: R. roridus
Binomial name
Roridomyces roridus
(Fr.) Rexer (1994)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Agaricus roridus Scop. (1772)
  • Agaricus roridus Fr. (1815)
  • Mycena rorida (Fr.) Quél. (1872)
Roridomyces roridus
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Mycological characteristics

gills on hymenium
cap is conical
hymenium is adnate
stipe is bare
spore print is white
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: unknown

Roridomyces roridus, commonly known as the dripping bonnet or the slippery mycena, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It is whitish or dirty yellow in color, with a broad convex cap 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) in diameter. The stipe is covered with a thick, slippery slime layer. This species can be bioluminescent, and is one of the several causative species of foxfire.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rexer K-H. (1994). Die Gattung Mycena s.l., Studien zu Ihrer Anatomie, Morphologie und Systematik (Ph.D. thesis) (in German). Tübingen, Germany: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. p. 132.
  2. ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy: Roridomyces roridus (Fr.) Rexer". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  3. ↑ Desjardin DE, Oliveira AG, Stevani CV. (2008). "Fungi bioluminescence revisited". Photochemistry and Photobiological Sciences 7 (2): 170–82. doi:10.1039/b713328f. PMID 18264584.

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