Mycena rorida

Mycena rorida
Mycena rorida
Mycena rorida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae
Genus: Mycena
Species: M. rorida
Binomial name
Mycena rorida
(Scop.) Quél.

Mycena rorida, commonly known as the dripping bonnet or the slippery mycena, is a species of mushroom. It is whitish or dirty yellow in color, with a broad convex cap 5-15mm in diameter. The stalk is covered with a thick, slippery slime layer. This species can be bioluminescent, and is one of the several causative species of foxfire.[1]

Mycena rorida
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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

The current, accepted name for this species is Roridomyces roridus.[1].

References

  1. ^ Desjardin DE, Oliveira AG, Stevani CV (Feb 2008). "Fungi bioluminescence revisited". Photochem Photobiol Sci. 7 (2): 170–82. doi:10.1039/b713328f. PMID 18264584. 

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