Panellus stipticus
Panellus stipticus is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It is found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. The fungus was given its current scientific name in 1879, but has been known by many names since French mycologist Jean Bulliard first described it in 1783.
About Panellus stipticus in brief
Panellus stipticus is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae, and the type species of the genus Panellus. It is found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, where it grows in groups or dense overlapping clusters on the logs, stumps, and trunks of deciduous trees. The fungus was given its current scientific name in 1879, but has been known by many names since French mycologist Jean Bulliard first described it as Agaricus stypticus in 1783. The luminescent glow of this and other fungi inspired the term foxfire, coined by early settlers in eastern and southern North America. Modern research has probed the potential of P. stipticus as a tool in bioremediation, because of its ability to detoxify various environmental pollutants. The species has had an extensive taxonomic history and been shuffled to a number of genera by various authors, resulting in several synonyms: Agaricus flabelliformis, Pocillaria stiptica, Rhipidium stipticum, Crepidopus stiptico, Pleurotus Stipticus, and Merulius stiptiko. It was Finnish mycologists Petter Karsten who in 18 1979 assigned its current name. The specific epithet panellus refers to the astringent panus or styptic fungus, the specific name for the specific species of panellicus is P. stiptus or the stiptic fungus, and is used in the literature as a variant spelling.
It has been shown to be closely related to the poroid mushroom Dictyopanus pusillus, based on similarities in spore shape, dried fruit structure, and ability of dried fruit bodies to revive when moistened with moistened moistened water. The mushrooms start out as tiny white knobs, which, over a period of one to three months, develop into fan- or kidney-shaped caps that measure up to 3 cm broad. The caps are orange-yellow to brownish, and attached to the decaying wood by short stubby stalks that are connected off-center or on the side of the caps. Strains from eastern North America are typically bioluminescent, but those from the Pacific coast regions of North America and from other continents are not. Genetic analysis has shown that luminescence is controlled by a single dominant allele, and that it is localized to the edges of the gills and the junction of theGills with the stem and cap. It is also observable with mycelia grown in laboratory culture, and the growth conditions for optimal light production have been studied in detail. It’s one of several dozen species of fungi that are biolominescent. In Rolf Singer’s authoritative 1986 classification of the Agaricales, it is also thetype species of subgenus PanellUS, an infrageneric grouping of PanellUs species.
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