<i>Mycena silvaelucens</i> (Forest Light) (IMAGE)

San Francisco State University

<i>Mycena silvaelucens</i> (Forest Light)

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A new luminescent fungus, Mycena silvaelucens, discovered by San Francisco State University Professor Dennis Desjardin and former SF State graduate student Brian Perry has been reported in the journal Mycologia. The species was collected in the grounds of an Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in Borneo, Malaysia and was found on the bark of a standing tree. The mushrooms are tiny with each cap measuring less than 18 millimeters in diameter.

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Brian Perry, University of Hawaii

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