An international research team has discovered a new species of luminous fungus in Asia, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.
Scientists from Kunming Institute of Botany under the CAS, along with Indian scientists, conducted several scientific investigations in northeast India since 2018 and found a species of luminous fungus on a dead bamboo.
The analysis showed that the fungus is a new species belonging to the genus Roridomyces. It is also the first time that Roridomyces has been discovered in India, according to the report.
Due to its wide application in medicine, agriculture and ecology, the luminous fungus has received much attention from scientists.
The study was published in the journal PHYTOTAXA. (Xinhua)
Roridomyces phyllostachydis (Agaricales, Mycenaceae Image by KIB)
A fungus described only once 164 years ago has been rediscovered by Chinese scientists in southwest China. The fungus, known as pleurotus placentodes, which was originally described by British botanist M.J. Berkeley in 1852 and known only from one specimen he collected, has been found in the eastern Himalayas and Hengduan Mountains.
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