Found largely in temperate and tropical climates, currently there are more than 125 known species of bioluminescent fungi, [1] all of which are members of the order Agaricales (Basidiomycota) with one possible exceptional ascomycete belonging to the order Xylariales. [2] [NB 1] All known bioluminescent Agaricales are mushroom-forming, white-spored agarics that belong to four distinct evolutionary lineages. The Omphalotus lineage (comprising the genera Omphalotus and Neonothopanus ) contains 12 species, the Armillaria lineage has 10 known species, while the Mycenoid lineage ( Favolachia, Mycena , Panellus , Prunulus , Roridomyces ) has more than 50 species. The recently discovered Lucentipes lineage contains two species, Mycena lucentipes and Gerronema viridilucens , which belong to a family that has not yet been formally named. [4] Armillaria mellea is the most widely distributed of the luminescent fungi, found across Asia, Europe, North America, and South Africa. [5]
Adding to these, the newly discovered Eoscyphella lineage, represented by Eoscyphella luciurceolata from the Atlantic Rainforest in southern Brazil, marks a significant expansion in our understanding of fungal bioluminescence. [6]
Bioluminescent fungi emit a greenish light at a wavelength of 520–530 nm. The light emission is continuous and occurs only in living cells. [7] No correlation of fungal bioluminescence with cell structure has been found. Bioluminescence may occur in both mycelia and fruit bodies, as in Panellus stipticus and Omphalotus olearius , or only in mycelia and young rhizomorphs, as in Armillaria mellea. [8] In Roridomyces roridus luminescence occurs only in the spores, while in Collybia tuberosa , it is only in the sclerotia. [9]
Although the biochemistry of fungal bioluminescence has not fully been characterized, the preparation of bioluminescent, cell-free extracts has allowed researchers to characterize the in vitro requirements of fungal bioluminescence. Experimental data suggest that a two-stage mechanism is required. In the first, a light-emitting substance (called "luciferin") is reduced by a soluble reductase enzyme at the expense of NAD(P)H. In the second stage, reduced luciferin is oxidized by an insoluble luciferase that releases the energy in the form of bluish-green light. Conditions that affect the growth of fungi, such as pH, light and temperature, have been found to influence bioluminescence, suggesting a link between metabolic activity and fungal bioluminescence. [9]
All bioluminescent fungi share the same enzymatic mechanism, suggesting that there is a bioluminescent pathway that arose early in the evolution of the mushroom-forming Agaricales. [4] All known luminescent species are white rot fungi capable of breaking down lignin, found in abundance in wood. Bioluminescence is an oxygen-dependent metabolic process and therefore may provide antioxidant protection against the potentially damaging effects of reactive oxygen species produced during wood decay.
The physiological and ecological function of fungal bioluminescence has not been established with certainty. It has been suggested that in the dark beneath closed tropical forest canopies, bioluminescent fruit bodies may be at an advantage by attracting grazing animals (including insects and other arthropods) that could help disperse their spores. Conversely, where mycelium (and vegetative structures like rhizomorphs and sclerotia) are the bioluminescent tissues, the argument has been made that light emission could deter grazing. [9]
The following list of bioluminescent mushrooms is based on a 2008 literature survey by Dennis Desjardin and colleagues, [10] in addition to accounts of several new species published since then. [11] [12] [13] [14]
Key
Binomial | Luminescence | Distribution | References | |
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Mycelium | Fruit body | |||
Armillaria calvescens Bérubé & Dessur. | Yes | ? | Eastern NA | [16] |
Armillaria cepistipes Velen. | Yes | ? | NA, Eurasia | [16] |
Armillaria fuscipes Petch | Yes | No | Malaysia, Africa | [8] [17] [18] |
Armillaria gallica Marxm. & Romagn. | Yes | No | EU, NA, Africa, Japan | [19] |
Armillaria gemina Bérubé & Dessur. | Yes | ? | Eastern NA | [16] |
Armillaria limonea (G.Stev.) Boesew. | No | Yes | Australasia, SA | [15] |
Armillaria mellea (Valh.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | Eurasia, NA | [19] [20] |
Armillaria nabsnona T.J. Volk & Burds. | Yes | ? | Western NA, Asia | [16] |
Armillaria novae-zelandiae (G.Stev.) Boesew. | No | Yes | NZ, Australia, New Guinea, SA | [15] |
Armillaria ostoyae (Romagn.) Henrik | Yes | No | EU, NA | [21] |
Armillaria sinapina Bérubé & Dessur. | Yes | ? | NA, Asia | [16] |
Armillaria tabescens (Scop.) Emel | Yes | No | EU, NA | [19] |
Collybia tuberosa (Bull.) P. Kumm | No | Only sclerotia | EU, NA, Lithuania | [22] [23] |
Cruentomycena orientalis Har. Takah., Taneyama & Hadano | Yes | Yes | Japan, Taiwan | [24] |
Desarmillaria ectypa (Fr.) R.A. Koch & Aime | Yes | Yes (gills) | EU | [25] |
Dictyopanus foliicolus Kobayasi [lower-alpha 1] | Yes | Yes | Japan | [27] [28] |
Eoscyphella luciurceolata Silva-Filho, Stevani & Desjardin | No | Yes | Brazil | [6] |
Favolaschia manipularis (Berk.) Teng [lower-alpha 2] | ? | Yes | Malaysia, Pacific islands | [30] [31] |
Favolaschia tonkinensis (Pat.) Kuntze, 1898 | No | Yes | Eastern India, China (Yunnan) | [32] |
Filoboletus hanedae (as 'hanedai′) Kobayasi [lower-alpha 3] | ? | Yes | Japan | [27] |
Filoboletus pallescens (Boedijn) Maas Geest. | ? | Yes | Malaysia, Indonesia (Krakatoa) | [34] |
Favolaschia peziziformis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. | ? | Yes | Japan | [35] |
Filoboletus yunnanensis P.G.Liu | ? | Yes | China | [34] |
Gerronema viridilucens Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani | Yes | Yes | SA | [36] |
Marasmiellus venosus Har. Takah., Taneyama & Hadano | No | Yes | Japan | [37] [ failed verification ] |
Mycena aspratilis Maas Geest. & de Meijer | ? | Yes (Hymenophore) | SA | [11] |
Mycena asterina Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani | Yes | Yes | SA | [38] |
Mycena cahaya A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [39] |
Mycena citricolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. | Yes | No | SA, CA, Jamaica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico | [18] [40] |
Mycena chlorophos (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. | Yes | Yes | Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific Islands | [31] |
Mycena cristinae J.S. Oliveira | Yes | Yes | Brazil | |
Mycena crocata (Schrad.) P. Kumm. | Yes | No | Europe | [41] [42] |
Mycena coralliformis A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin | Yes | ? | Malaysia | [30] |
Mycena daisyogunensis Kobayasi | ? | Yes | Japan | [27] |
Mycena deeptha Aravind. & Manim. | Yes | No | India, Malaysia | [13] |
Mycena deformis Maas Geest. & de Meijer | Yes | No | Brazil | [43] |
Mycena deusta Maas Geest. & de Meijer | ? | Yes | Brazil | [44] |
Mycena discobasis Metrod | ? | Yes | SA, AF | [38] |
Mycena sp. "Erua (PDD 80772)" | Yes | Yes | NZ | [45] [46] |
Mycena epipterygia (Scop.: Fr.) S.F.Gray | Yes | No | EU, NA, Japan | [43] |
Mycena fera Maas Geest. & de Meijer | ? | Yes | SA | [38] |
Mycena flammifera Har. Takah. & Taneyama | ? | Yes | Japan | [47] |
Mycena fulgoris Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin | No | Yes (stipe) | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena fusca Cleland | ? | ? | South Australia | [49] |
Mycena galopus (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | EU, NA, Japan | [18] [41] [43] [50] |
Mycena globulispora Maas Geest. & de Meijer | Yes | Yes (basidiomes) | Brazil | [51] |
Mycena gombakensis A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [30] |
Mycena guzmanii Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena haematopus (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | Yes | EU, NA, Japan | [41] [50] [52] |
Mycena illuminans Henn. | Yes | Yes | Malaysia, Japan | [30] [31] [53] [54] |
Mycena inclinata (Fr.) Quél. | Yes | No | EU, NA, AF | [17] |
Mycena jingyinga C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao | Yes | No | Taiwan | [55] |
Mycena kentingensis Y.S. Shih, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao | ? | Yes | Taiwan | [14] |
Mycena lacrimans Singer | ? | Yes | SA (Brazil) | [38] |
Mycena lazulina Har. Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba | ? | Yes | Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia | [56] |
Mycena lucentipes Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani | Yes | Yes | SA, CA | [38] |
Mycena luguensis C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao | Yes | No | Taiwan | [55] |
Mycena lumina Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin | No | Yes | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena lux-coeli Corner | ? | Yes | Japan | [31] |
Mycena luxaeterna B.A.Perry & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | SA | [11] |
Mycena luxarboricola B.A.Perry & Desjardin | No | Yes | SA | [11] |
Mycena luxfoliata Har. Takah., Taneyama & Terashima | Yes | No | Japan | [51] |
Mycena luxfoliicola Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Ram.-Cruz | Yes | Yes | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena luxperpetua B.A. Perry & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Puerto Rico | [11] |
Mycena maculata P.Karst. | Yes | ? | EU, NA, AF | [50] |
Mycena margarita (Murrill) Murrill | ? | Yes (yellowish green light in all parts of the basidiome, or nonluminescent in some populations) | Caribbean - Florida (USA), Belize, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil | [57] [11] |
Mycena nebula Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Rockefeller | No | Yes | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena nocticaelum A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [30] |
Mycena noctilucens Kawam. ex Corner [lower-alpha 4] | ? | Yes | Malaysia, Pacific islands, South Solomons | [31] [54] |
Mycena olivaceomarginata (Massee apud Cooke) Massee | Yes | No | EU, NA | [17] |
Mycena oculisnymphae Desjardin, B.A. Perry & Stevanir | ? | Yes (basidiome) | Brazil | [51] |
Mycena perlae Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Rockefeller | No | Yes | Mexico | [48] |
Mycena polygramma (Bull.: Fr.) S.F.Gray | Yes | No | AF, EU, NA, Japan | [18] [43] [50] |
Mycena pruinosoviscida Corner [lower-alpha 5] | ? | Yes (and spores) | AU, Malaysia, Japan (Hachijō-jima) | [31] [54] |
Mycena pseudostylobates Kobayasi | Yes | ? | Japan | [27] |
Mycena pura (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | EU, NA, SA, Japan | [50] |
Mycena rosea (Bull.) Gramberg | Yes | No | EU | [50] |
Mycena roseoflava (G.Stev.) | Yes | Yes | NZ | [15] |
Mycena sanguinolenta (Alb. & Schwein.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | EU, NA, Japan | [41] [43] |
Mycena seminau A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [39] |
Mycena silvaelucens B.A.Perry & Desjardin | ? | Yes (pileus, lamellae, stipe) | Malaysia | [11] |
Mycena sinar A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [39] |
Mycena sinar var. tangkaisinar A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin | ? | Yes | Malaysia | [30] |
Mycena singeri Lodge | ? | Yes | SA, CA | [38] |
Mycena stellaris Har.Takah., Taneyama & Hadano | ? | Yes | Taiwan | [59] |
Mycena stylobates (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | AF, EU, NA, Japan | [41] [43] |
Mycena sublucens Corner | No | Yes | Malaysia | [31] |
Mycena tintinnabulum (Fr.) Quél. | Yes | No | EU | [60] |
Mycena venus C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao | Yes | No | Taiwan | [55] |
Mycena vinacea Cleland | ? | Yes (basidiomes) | AU, NZ | [15] |
Mycena zephirus (Fr.: Fr.) P.Kumm. | Yes | No | EU | [43] [50] |
Neonothopanus gardneri (Berk. ex Gardner) Capelari, Desjardin, Perry, Asai & Stevani | Yes | Yes | SA | [12] [61] |
Neonothopanus nambi (Speg.) Petersen & Krisai-Greilhuber | Yes | Yes | AU, SA, CA, Malaysia | [30] [62] |
Nothopanus eugrammus (Mont.) Singer [lower-alpha 6] | No | Yes | Japan, Malaysia, Singapore | [62] |
Nothopanus noctilucens (Lév.) Singer | ? | Yes | Japan | [64] [65] |
Omphalotus flagelliformis Zhu L. Yang & B. Feng | Yes | Yes | China | [66] |
Omphalotus illudens (Schwein.) Bresinsky & Besl. | Yes | Yes | EU, NA | [8] [17] [18] |
Omphalotus japonicus (Kawam.) Kirchm. & O.K.Mill. [lower-alpha 7] | Yes | Yes | China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan | [52] [68] [69] [70] |
Omphalotus mangensis (J.Li & X.Hu) Kirchm. & O.K.Mill. | ? | Yes | China | [71] |
Omphalotus nidiformis (Berk.) O.K.Mill. | ? | Yes | AU | [72] [73] |
Omphalotus olearius (DC.: Fr.) Singer | Yes | Yes | EU, US | [17] |
Omphalotus olivascens H.E.Bigelow, O.K.Mill. & Thiers | No | Yes | NA | [74] |
Omphalotus subilludens (Murrill) H.E.Bigelow | Yes | Yes | US | [75] |
Panellus luminescens (Corner) Corner | Yes | Yes | Malaysia | [30] [76] [77] |
Panellus luxfilamentus A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin | Yes | ? | Malaysia | [30] |
Panellus pusillus (Pers. ex Lév.) Burdsall & O.K.Mill. [lower-alpha 8] | Yes | Yes | AF, AU, NA, SA, Malaysia, Japan | [28] [31] [65] [77] [79] |
Panellus stipticus (Bull.: Fr.) P.Karst. | Yes | Yes | AU, AF, EU, NA, SA, Japan | [18] [80] [20] |
Pleurotus decipiens Corner | ? | Yes | Malaysia | [62] |
Resinomycena petarensis Desjardin, B.A. Perry & Stevani | Yes | No | Brazil | [51] |
Roridomyces irritans (E.Horak) Rexer | No | Yes | AU | [81] |
Roridomyces phyllostachydis Karun., Mortimer and Axford | No | Yes | India | [82] |
Roridomyces pruinosoviscidus A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin | Yes | Yes | Malaysia, Bismark Archipelago | [30] |
Roridomyces lamprosporus (Corner) Rexer [lower-alpha 9] | No | Yes (spores) | Malaysia, AU | [54] [76] [81] |
Roridomyces roridus (Fr.) Rexer [lower-alpha 10] | Yes | No | EU, NA, SA, Japan | [86] |
Roridomyces sublucens Corner | No | Yes (stipe and gills) | Amboina (Indonesia) | [87] |
Roridomyces viridiluminus L.A.P. Dauner, Karunarathna & P.E. Mortimer | Yes | Yes | China (Yunnan) | [87] |
Tricholoma sciodes (Pers.) C. Martín | Yes | No | Lithuania | [23] |
Xylaria hypoxylon (L.) Grev. | ? | Allegedly (?) [NB 1] | EU | [88] [20] |
Omphalotus olearius, commonly known as the jack-o'-lantern mushroom, is a poisonous orange gilled mushroom that to an untrained eye appears similar to some chanterelles. It is notable for its bioluminescent properties. It is found in woodland areas in Europe, where it grows on decaying stumps, on buried roots or at the base of hardwood trees. It has also been reported from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. A similar, but phylogenetically distinct species found in eastern North America is Omphalotus illudens.
Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width. The name Mycena comes from the Ancient Greek μύκηςmykes, meaning "fungus". Species in the genus Mycena are commonly known as bonnets.
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.
Mycena haematopus, commonly known as the bleeding fairy helmet, the burgundydrop bonnet, or the bleeding Mycena, is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae, of the order Agaricales. It is widespread and common in Europe and North America, and has also been collected in old Japan and Venezuela. It is saprotrophic—meaning that it obtains nutrients by consuming decomposing organic matter—and the fruit bodies appear in small groups or clusters on the decaying logs, trunks, and stumps of deciduous trees, particularly beech. The fungus, first described scientifically in 1799, is classified in the section Lactipedes of the genus Mycena, along with other species that produce a milky or colored latex.
Panellus is a genus of more than 50 mushroom species of fungi in the family Mycenaceae as defined molecularly. Prior to molecular analyses the generic name had been used for any white-spored pleurotoid with amyloid spores. Unrelated but similar species are now classified in Sarcomyxa and Scytinotus. In older guides and other literature the type species had been placed in either Pleurotus or Panus and the poroid species had been classified in the synonymous genus Dictyopanus or in broadly defined genera like Polyporus (Polyporaceae) or the more closely allied Favolaschia (Mycenaceae). The closest molecular allies are Resinomycena and Cruentomycena.
Panellus stipticus, commonly known as the bitter oyster, the astringent panus, the luminescent panellus, or the stiptic fungus, is a species of fungus. It belongs in the family Mycenaceae, and the type species of the genus Panellus. A common and widely distributed species, it is found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, where it grows in groups or dense overlapping clusters on the logs, stumps, and trunks of deciduous trees, especially beech, oak, and birch. During the development of the fruit bodies, the mushrooms start out as tiny white knobs, which, over a period of one to three months, develop into fan- or kidney-shaped caps that measure up to 3 cm (1.2 in) broad. The caps are orange-yellow to brownish, and attached to the decaying wood by short stubby stalks that are connected off-center or on the side of the caps. The fungus was given its current scientific name in 1879, but has been known by many names since French mycologist Jean Bulliard first described it as Agaricus stypticus in 1783. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed P. stipticus to have a close genetic relationship with members of the genus Mycena.
Mycena chlorophos is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. First described in 1860, the fungus is found in subtropical Asia, including India, Japan, Taiwan, Polynesia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, in Australia, and Brazil. Fruit bodies (mushrooms) have pale brownish-grey sticky caps up to 30 mm (1.2 in) in diameter atop stems 6–30 mm (0.2–1.2 in) long and up to a millimeter thick. The mushrooms are bioluminescent and emit a pale green light. Fruiting occurs in forests on fallen woody debris such as dead twigs, branches, and logs. The fungus can be made to grow and fruit in laboratory conditions, and the growth conditions affecting bioluminescence have been investigated.
Mycena asterina is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It is found in São Paulo state, Brazil, where it grows singly or scattered on fallen leaves in Atlantic forests. The fruit bodies of the fungus are bioluminescent.
Mycena lacrimans is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Found in South America, the fruit bodies of the fungus are bioluminescent.
Mycena illuminans is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It was first found on the trunk of Calamus (palm) in Jawa, Indonesia. It is bioluminescent.
Mycena tintinnabulum is a European species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. The mycelium, but not the fruit body, is bioluminescent.
Mycena zephirus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It is bioluminescent.
Mycena sublucens is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Found in Indonesia, it was described as new to science in 1954 by English mycologist E. J. H. Corner. The fruit bodies are bioluminescent.
Mycena singeri is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Described as new to science in 1988 by Jean Lodge, it is bioluminescent. In 2007, the first reported luminescent species were found from a single site in primary Atlantic Forest habitat in the Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil.
Mycena pseudostylobates is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It is bioluminescent. It was originally found on the leaves of Quercus gilva in Japan.
Mycena noctilucens is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. The species was first described scientifically by E.J.H. Corner in 1954. Found in Malaysia and the Pacific islands, the mycelium of the fungus is bioluminescent.
Filoboletus manipularis is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Found in Australasia, Malaysia, and the Pacific islands, the mycelium and fruit bodies of the fungus grow in forests and can be bioluminescent. The fruiting bodies also display a variety of morphologies that have no current genetic attributions. References to Filoboletus manipularis can be found in Japanese folklore and Indonesian food culture.
Poromycena hanedai is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Found in Japan, the species was first described by Kobayasi in 1951. It is bioluminescent.
Mycena daisyogunensis is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. The fruit bodies of the fungus are bioluminescent. It was collected from Daisyogun Cave in Miyazaki Prefecture on Kyushu, Japan.
Dennis Edmund Desjardin is an American mycologist. He has been called the "Mushroom Guru of the West Coast".
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