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Luminous mushrooms
Mycena
minutissimum.[Maguire
2006] |
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Brief overview
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Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006] .(Originally classified as
Type_D, status = rare)
A smaller more delicate
luminous mushroom of 5 to 6mm pileus (cap) diameter that appears in scattered form
on the rough bark collar of rainforest trees usually close to the ground, but occasionally
high up in the trees. The specimen above was one of over 100 on a rough-barked tree branch
approx 6 metres above ground. It is rarely sighted.
Mycena
minutissimum.[Maguire 2006] |
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This minute
specimen had been found previously and incorrectly assumed to be a stunted form of Type_C
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To find it again in two different locations in large numbers has proven otherwise.
There are noticable differences:
- in the configuration of the hymenium,
- size, and growth habit and,
- the display of a lesser number of gills to Type_C. |
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Night view |
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Side view |
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Side view of
Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006]
in situ on tree trunk.
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Underside view
of
Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006]
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Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006]
in situ on tree trunk.
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Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006]
in situ on tree trunk.
The photo shows only 5 of at least 100 luminous mushrooms visible on the same tree.
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| Common Name: |
Luminous mushroom |
| Synonym: |
Mycena minutissimum.[Maguire
2006] |
| Pileus |
Cap 5-6 mm broad, at first
hemispherical, becoming slightly convex ; surface translucent-striate from margin to
centre, coated with transparent secreted sticky fluid; context thin, membranous,
translucent-white/grey, brown cap in the centre, unchanging when cut;
odor nil. |
| Lamellae |
Gills radial, normal, separate
from the stipe, white/cream. |
| Stipe |
Stipe 8-10mm long, < 1.0 mm
thick, round, hollow, rising from a basal disc, broad at disc tapering toward
the pileus ; whitish, translucent. |
| Spores |
spores white in deposit. |
| Mycelia |
the mycelia does not display
any obvious bioluminescent properties. |
| Habitat |
Found only in high altitude
sub-tropical rainforest. Scattered on living trunks of soft-hardwood rough barked
rainforest species ; fruiting after periods of prolonged wet summer weather throughout the
mushroom season usually November to March. |
| Edibility |
Not recommended |
| Comments |
This Mycena is easily
recognized by its' smaller size and the concave nature of the pileus on maturity. |
G.Maguire.
Springbrook Research
Centre
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