RORIDOMYCES PHYLLOSTACHYDIS

About:

• The new species — named Roridomyces phyllostachydis — was first sighted on a wet August night near a stream in Meghalaya’s Mawlynnong in East Khasi Hills district and later at Krang Shuri in West Jaintia Hills district.
  
  
• It is now one among the 97 known species of bioluminescent fungi in the world.
  
  
• Significance:
  • The new species was important because it was the first mushroom in the Roridomyces genus to be found in India.
    
    
  • it was the only member in its genus to have light emitting from its stipe or stalk.