List of bioluminescent fungi
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This list of bioluminscent fungi has more than 125 known species found largely in temperate and tropical climates.Stevani, C. V., Zamuner, C. K., Bastos, E. L., de Nóbrega, B. B., Soares, D. M. M., Oliveira, A. G., Bechara, E. J. H., Shakhova, E. S., Sarkisyan, K. S., Yampolsky, I. V., & Kaskova, Z. M. (2024). [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389556724000042 The living light from fungi.] Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, 58, 100654. They are members of the order Agaricales (Basidiomycota) with one
possible exceptional ascomycete belonging to the order Xylariales (with extremely faint light).{{efn|name="Xylaria"|Some sources identify xylaria hypoxylon with extremely faint light.{{Cite web |last=O'Reilly |first=Pat |date=2024-09-11 |title=Xylaria hypoxylon (L.) Grev. – Candlesnuff Fungus |url=https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/xylaria-hypoxylon.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527011107/https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/xylaria-hypoxylon.php |archive-date=2024-05-27 |website=First Nature (Fascinated by Fungi)}}{{Cite web |last=Cann |first=AJ |date=2017-12-19 |title=Candlesnuff Luminescence |url=https://www.naturespot.org.uk/node/128848 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620204756/https://www.naturespot.org.uk/node/128848 |archive-date=2023-06-20 |website=NatureSpot}}}} 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. Armillaria mellea is the most widely distributed of the luminescent fungi, found across Asia, Europe, North America, and South Africa.
The newly discovered Eoscyphella lineage, represented by Eoscyphella luciurceolata from the Atlantic Rainforest in southern Brazil, marks a significant expansion in understanding of fungal bioluminescence.{{Cite journal |last1=Silva-Filho |first1=Alexandre G. S. |last2=Mombert |first2=Andgelo |last3=Nascimento |first3=Cristiano C. |last4=Nóbrega |first4=Bianca B. |last5=Soares |first5=Douglas M. M. |last6=Martins |first6=Ana G. S. |last7=Domingos |first7=Adão H. R. |last8=Santos |first8=Isaias |last9=Della-Torre |first9=Olavo H. P. |last10=Perry |first10=Brian A. |last11=Desjardin |first11=Dennis E. |last12=Stevani |first12=Cassius V. |last13=Menolli |first13=Nelson |date=October 2023 |title=Eoscyphella luciurceolata gen. and sp. nov. (Agaricomycetes) Shed Light on Cyphellopsidaceae with a New Lineage of Bioluminescent Fungi |journal=Journal of Fungi |language=en |volume=9 |issue=10 |pages=1004 |doi=10.3390/jof9101004 |pmid=37888262 |pmc=10608165 |issn=2309-608X |doi-access=free }}
Bioluminescent fungi emit a greenish light at a wavelength of 520–530 nm. The light emission is continuous and occurs only in living cells. 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. In Roridomyces roridus luminescence occurs only in the spores, while in Collybia tuberosa, it is only in the sclerotia.
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.
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. 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.
The following list of bioluminescent mushrooms is based on a 2008 literature survey by Dennis Desjardin and colleagues, in addition to accounts of several new species published since then.
Species
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! colspan="2" | Luminescence ! rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid grey;" | Distribution ! rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid grey;" | References |
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| style="border-bottom: 3px solid grey;" | Mycelium
| style="border-bottom: 3px solid grey;" | Fruit body |
| Armillaria calvescens Bérubé & Dessur. |Yes |? |Eastern NA |
| Armillaria cepistipes Velen. |Yes |? |NA, Eurasia |
| Armillaria fuscipes Petch |Yes |No |Malaysia, Africa |
| Armillaria gallica Marxm. & Romagn. |Yes |No |EU, NA, Africa, Japan |
| Armillaria gemina Bérubé & Dessur. |Yes |? |Eastern NA |
| Armillaria limonea (G.Stev.) Boesew. |No |Yes |Australasia, SA |
| Armillaria mellea (Valh.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |Eurasia, NA |
| Armillaria nabsnona T.J. Volk & Burds. |Yes |? |Western NA, Asia |
| Armillaria novae-zelandiae (G.Stev.) Boesew. |Yes |Yes |NZ, Australia, New Guinea, SA |
| Armillaria ostoyae (Romagn.) Henrik |Yes |No |EU, NA |
| Armillaria sinapina Bérubé & Dessur. |Yes |? |NA, Asia |
| Armillaria tabescens (Scop.) Emel |Yes |No |EU, NA |
| Collybia tuberosa (Bull.) P. Kumm |No |Only sclerotia |EU, NA, Lithuania |
| Cruentomycena orientalis Har. Takah., Taneyama & Hadano |Yes |Yes |Japan, Taiwan |
| Cruentomycena viscidocruenta (Cleland) R.H. Petersen & Kovalenko 2008 |Yes |No |New Zealand |
| Desarmillaria ectypa (Fr.) R.A. Koch & Aime |Yes |Yes (gills) |EU |
| Dictyopanus foliicolus Kobayasi{{efn|Apparently it is the same species as given in Index Fungorum with a current name as Dictyopanus foliicola Kobayasi.}} |Yes |Yes |Japan |
| Eoscyphella luciurceolata Silva-Filho, Stevani & Desjardin |No |Yes |Brazil |
| Favolaschia manipularis (Berk.) Teng{{efn|This species is given in Audrey et al. (2015) as Filoboletus manipularis and in Corner (1954) as Mycena manipularis var. microporus, but Index Fungorum indicates that Favolaschia manipularis is the current name.}} |? |Yes |Malaysia, Pacific islands |
| Favolaschia tonkinensis (Pat.) Kuntze, 1898 |No |Yes |Eastern India, China (Yunnan) |
| Filoboletus hanedae (as 'hanedai′) Kobayasi{{efn|This species is given in Kobayasi (1951) as Poromycena hanedae (as ′hanedai′) but Index Fungorum indicates that Filoboletus hanedae (as ′hanedai′) is the current name.}} |? |Yes |Japan |
| Filoboletus pallescens (Boedijn) Maas Geest. |? |Yes |Malaysia, Indonesia (Krakatoa) |
| Favolaschia peziziformis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. |? |Yes |Japan |
| Filoboletus yunnanensis P.G.Liu |? |Yes |China |
| Gerronema viridilucens Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani |Yes |Yes |SA |
| Marasmiellus venosus Har. Takah., Taneyama & Hadano |No |Yes |Japan |{{Cite journal | journal= | last1=芳江 |first1=寺嶋 |last2=春樹 |first2=高橋 |last3=裕一 |first3=種山 |date=2016 |script-title=ja:南西日本菌類誌 : 軟質高等菌類 |trans-title=The fungal flora in southwestern Japan: agarics and boletes |s2cid=89254172 |language=en}}{{failed verification|date=July 2023}} |
| Mycena aspratilis Maas Geest. & de Meijer |? |Yes (Hymenophore) |SA |
| Mycena asterina Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani |Yes |Yes |SA |
| Mycena cahaya A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena citricolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. |Yes |No |SA, CA, Jamaica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico |
| Mycena chlorophos (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Sacc. |Yes |Yes |Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific Islands |
| Mycena cristinae J.S. Oliveira |Yes |Yes |Brazil |[https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/advpub/0/advpub_MYC545/_pdf] |
| Mycena crocata
(Schrad.) P. Kumm. |Yes |No |Europe |{{Cite web |last=Baggenstos |first=Rudolf |title=Mycena species - A research and realitycheck |url=https://www.baggenstos-rudolf.ch/project/mycena/mycena.html |access-date=October 22, 2024 |website=Baggenstos/Rudolf}}{{Cite journal |last1=Heinzelmann |first1=Renate |last2=Baggenstos |first2=Heidy |last3=Rudolf |first3=Andreas |date=2024-05-21 |title=Is the bioluminescence in many Mycena species overlooked? ― A case study from M. crocata in Switzerland |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/65/4/65_MYC633/_article |journal=Mycoscience |language=en |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=173–179 |doi=10.47371/mycosci.2024.03.001 |issn=1340-3540|pmc=11527772 }} |
| Mycena coralliformis A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin |Yes |? |Malaysia |
| Mycena daisyogunensis Kobayasi |? |Yes |Japan |
| Mycena deeptha Aravind. & Manim. |Yes |No |India, Malaysia |
| Mycena deformis Maas Geest. & de Meijer |Yes |No |Brazil |
| Mycena deusta Maas Geest. & de Meijer |? |Yes |Brazil |
| Mycena discobasis Metrod |? |Yes |SA, AF |
| Mycena sp. "Erua (PDD 80772)"
|Yes |Yes |NZ |{{Cite web |title=Specimen Details |url=https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/specimen/PDD_80772 |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=scd.landcareresearch.co.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Glowing Discoveries: One Photographer's Journey into the World of Bioluminescent Mushrooms |url=https://www.myconeer.com/p/glowing-discoveries-one-photographers|access-date=2024-04-03 |website=myconeer.com}} |
| Mycena epipterygia (Scop.: Fr.) S.F.Gray |Yes |No |EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena fera Maas Geest. & de Meijer |? |Yes |SA |
| Mycena flammifera Har. Takah. & Taneyama |? |Yes |Japan |
| Mycena fulgoris Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin |No |Yes (stipe) |Mexico |
| Mycena fusca Cleland |? |? |South Australia |
| Mycena galopus (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena globulispora Maas Geest. & de Meijer |Yes |Yes (basidiomes) |Brazil |
| Mycena gombakensis A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena guzmanii Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Mexico |
| Mycena haematopus (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |Yes |EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena illuminans Henn. |Yes |Yes |Malaysia, Japan |
| Mycena inclinata (Fr.) Quél. |Yes |No |EU, NA, AF |
| Mycena jingyinga C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao |Yes |No |Taiwan |
| Mycena kentingensis Y.S. Shih, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao |? |Yes |Taiwan |
| Mycena lacrimans Singer |? |Yes |SA (Brazil) |
| Mycena lazulina Har. Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba |? |Yes |Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia |
| Mycena lucentipes Desjardin, Capelari & Stevani |Yes |Yes |SA, CA |
| Mycena luguensis C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao |Yes |No |Taiwan |
| Mycena lumina Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin |No |Yes |Mexico |
| Mycena lux-coeli Corner |? |Yes |Japan |
| Mycena luxaeterna B.A.Perry & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |SA |
| Mycena luxarboricola B.A.Perry & Desjardin |No |Yes |SA |
| {{ill|Mycena luxfoliata|ceb|Mycena luxfoliata}} Har. Takah., Taneyama & Terashima |Yes |No |Japan |
| Mycena luxfoliicola Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Ram.-Cruz |Yes |Yes |Mexico |
| Mycena luxperpetua B.A. Perry & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Puerto Rico |
| Mycena maculata P.Karst. |Yes |? |EU, NA, AF |
| 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 |{{Cite journal |last1=Alves |first1=Maria Helena |last2=Nascimento |first2=Cristiano Coelho do |date=2014-02-01 |title=Mycena margarita (Murrill) Murrill, 1916 (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Mycenaceae): a bioluminescent agaric first recorded in Brazil |url=https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/18880/ |journal=Check List |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=239 |doi=10.15560/10.1.239 |issn=1809-127X |doi-access=free }} |
| Mycena nebula Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Rockefeller |No |Yes |Mexico |
| Mycena nocticaelum A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena noctilucens Kawam. ex Corner{{efn|This species is presumably given in Corner (1994) as Mycena Noctilucens var. magnispora but Index Fungorum indicates that Mycena Noctilucens is the current name.}} |? |Yes |Malaysia, Pacific islands, South Solomons |
| Mycena olivaceomarginata (Massee apud Cooke) Massee |Yes |No |EU, NA |
| Mycena oculisnymphae Desjardin, B.A. Perry & Stevanir |? |Yes (basidiome) |Brazil |
| Mycena perlae Cortés-Pérez, Desjardin & Rockefeller |No |Yes |Mexico |
| Mycena polygramma (Bull.: Fr.) S.F.Gray |Yes |No |AF, EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena pruinosoviscida Corner{{efn|This species is given in Corner (1954) and presumably in Corner (1994) as Mycena pruinoso-viscida and Mycena pruinoso-viscida var. rabaulensis but Index Fungorum indicates that Mycena pruinosoviscida is the current name.}} |? |Yes (and spores) |AU, Malaysia, Japan (Hachijō-jima) |
| Mycena pseudostylobates Kobayasi |Yes |? |Japan |
| Mycena pura (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |EU, NA, SA, Japan |
| Mycena rosea (Bull.) Gramberg |Yes |No |EU |
| Mycena roseoflava (G.Stev.) |Yes |Yes |NZ |
| Mycena sanguinolenta (Alb. & Schwein.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena seminau A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena silvaelucens B.A.Perry & Desjardin |? |Yes (pileus, lamellae, stipe) |Malaysia |
| Mycena sinar A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena sinar var. tangkaisinar A.L.C.Chew & Desjardin |? |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena singeri Lodge |? |Yes |SA, CA |
| Mycena stellaris Har.Takah., Taneyama & Hadano |? |Yes |Taiwan |
| Mycena stylobates (Pers.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |AF, EU, NA, Japan |
| Mycena sublucens Corner |No |Yes |Malaysia |
| Mycena tintinnabulum (Fr.) Quél. |Yes |No |EU |
| Mycena venus C.C. Chang, C.Y. Chen, W.W. Lin & H.W. Kao |Yes |No |Taiwan |
| Mycena vinacea Cleland |? |Yes (basidiomes) |AU, NZ |
| Mycena zephirus (Fr.: Fr.) P.Kumm. |Yes |No |EU |
| Neonothopanus gardneri (Berk. ex Gardner) Capelari, Desjardin, Perry, Asai & Stevani |Yes |Yes |SA |
| Neonothopanus nambi (Speg.) Petersen & Krisai-Greilhuber |Yes |Yes |AU, SA, CA, Malaysia |
| Nothopanus eugrammus (Mont.) Singer{{efn|This species is given in Corner (1981) as Pleurotus eugrammus var. radicicolus, but Index Fungorum indicates that Nothopanus eugrammus is the current name.}} |No |Yes |Japan, Malaysia, Singapore |
| Nothopanus noctilucens (Lév.) Singer |? |Yes |Japan |
| Omphalotus flagelliformis Zhu L. Yang & B. Feng |Yes |Yes |China |
| Omphalotus illudens (Schwein.) Bresinsky & Besl. |Yes |Yes |EU, NA |
| Omphalotus japonicus (Kawam.) Kirchm. & O.K.Mill.{{efn|This species is given in Zang (1979) as Lampteromyces luminescens, but Index Fungorum indicates that Omphalotus japonicus is the current name.}} |Yes |Yes |China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan |
| Omphalotus mangensis (J.Li & X.Hu) Kirchm. & O.K.Mill. |? |Yes |China |
| Omphalotus nidiformis (Berk.) O.K.Mill. |? |Yes |AU |
| Omphalotus olearius (DC.: Fr.) Singer |Yes |Yes |EU, US |
| Omphalotus olivascens H.E.Bigelow, O.K.Mill. & Thiers |No |Yes |NA |
| Omphalotus subilludens (Murrill) H.E.Bigelow |Yes |Yes |US |
| Panellus luminescens (Corner) Corner |Yes |Yes |Malaysia |
| Panellus luxfilamentus A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin |Yes |? |Malaysia |
| Panellus pusillus (Pers. ex Lév.) Burdsall & O.K.Mill.{{efn|This species is given in Corner (1954) as Dictyopanus pusillus var. sublamellatus and in Kobayasi (1963), Corner (1954), Corner (1986) as Panellus gloeocystidiatus but Index Fungorum indicates that Panellus pusillus is the current name.}} |Yes |Yes |AF, AU, NA, SA, Malaysia, Japan |
| Panellus stipticus (Bull.: Fr.) P.Karst. |Yes |Yes |AU, AF, EU, NA, SA, Japan |
| Pleurotus decipiens Corner |? |Yes |Malaysia |
| Resinomycena petarensis Desjardin, B.A. Perry & Stevani |Yes |No |Brazil |
| Roridomyces irritans (E.Horak) Rexer |No |Yes |AU |
| Roridomyces phyllostachydis Karun., Mortimer and Axford |No |Yes |India |
| Roridomyces pruinosoviscidus A.L.C. Chew & Desjardin |Yes |Yes |Malaysia, Bismark Archipelago |
| Roridomyces lamprosporus (Corner) Rexer{{efn|This species is given in Corner (1994), Corner (1950), Horak (1978) as Mycena lamprospora, but Index Fungorum indicates that Roridomyces lamprosporus is the current name.}} |No |Yes (spores) |Malaysia, AU |
| Roridomyces roridus (Fr.) Rexer{{efn|This species is given in Desjardin et al. (2008) as Mycena rorida, but both Index Fungorum and MycoBank indicate that Roridomyces roridus is the current name.}} |Yes |No |EU, NA, SA, Japan |
| Roridomyces sublucens Edred John Henry CornerCorner |No |Yes (stipe and gills) |Amboina (Indonesia) |
| Roridomyces viridiluminus L.A.P. Dauner, Karunarathna & P.E. Mortimer |Yes |Yes |China (Yunnan) |
| Tricholoma sciodes (Pers.) C. Martín |Yes |No |Lithuania |
| Xylaria hypoxylon (L.) Grev. |? |Allegedly (?){{efn|name="Xylaria"}} |EU |
See also
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- [https://www.myconeer.com/t/bioluminescent Bioluminescence in the Bush - Glow in the Dark Mushrooms in New Zealand]
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