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
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. 

External links

• “Roridomyces roridus” by Robert Sasata, Healing-Mushrooms.net, March, 2008.