Roridomyces roridus

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]

Roridomyces roridus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 Mycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Cap is conical
	Hymenium is adnate
	Stipe is bare
	Spore print is white
	Ecology is saprotrophic
	Edibility is unknown

See also

• List of bioluminescent fungi

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". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 7 (2): 170–82. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1033.2156. doi:10.1039/b713328f. PMID 18264584.