Mycena lazulina Har.Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba is a fungus in the Mycenaceae family, order Agaricales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Mycena lazulina Har.Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba

Mycena lazulina Har.Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba

Mycena lazulina is a bioluminescent blue-named mushroom first described in 2016 from southwestern Japan.

Family
Genus
Mycena
Order
Agaricales
Class
Agaricomycetes

About Mycena lazulina Har.Takah., Taneyama, Terashima & Oba

Mycena lazulina is a bioluminescent mushroom species that belongs to the genus Mycena and the family Mycenaceae. This species was first formally described in 2016, based on material collected from southwestern Japan. Its specific epithet, lazulina, is the Latin word for blue, a reference that is associated with lapis lazuli.

Photo: (c) Cho Fungi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Cho Fungi · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Fungi Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes Agaricales Mycenaceae Mycena

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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