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Luminescent Mycena: new and noteworthy species.

     ¹ Dept Biology, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA, 94132, United States of America
² San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
³ Center for Forest Mycology Research, USDA-Forest Service, FPL, PO Box 1377, Luquillo, PR, 00773-1377
⁴ Instituto de Química da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
⁵ Tottori Mycological Institute, Tottori, Japan

Seven species of Mycena are reported as luminescent, representing specimens collected in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan (Bonin Islands), Malaysia (Borneo) and Puerto Rico. Four of them represent new species (Mycena luxaeterna, M. luxarboricola, M. luxperpetua, M. silvaelucens) and three represent new reports of luminescence in previously described species (M. aff. abieticola, M. aspratilis, M. margarita). Mycena subepipterygia is synonymized with M. margarita, and M. chlorinosma is proposed as a possible synonym. Comprehensive descriptions, illustrations, photographs and comparisons with phenetically similar species are provided. A redescription of M. chlorophos, based on analyses of type specimens and recently collected topotypical material is provided. The addition of these seven new or newly reported luminescent species of Mycena brings the total to 71 known bioluminescent species of fungi.

Key words: Agaricales, bioluminescence, Mycenaceae, mycenoid fungi, taxonomy