Neonothopanus nambi

Neonothopanus nambi is a poisonous and bioluminescent mushroom in the family Omphalotaceae.^[1] The genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this species' bioluminescence were published in 2019, the first to be elucidated for a fungus.^[2] In 2020, genes from this fungus were used to create bioluminescent tobacco plants.^[3]

Neonothopanus nambi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Omphalotaceae
Genus:	Neonothopanus
Species:	N. nambi
Binomial name
Neonothopanus nambi (Speg.) R.H. Petersen & Krisai, 1999
Synonyms
Agaricus nambi Speg., 1883 Pleurotus nambi (Speg.) Speg., 1887

Italian-Argentinian naturalist Carlo Luigi Spegazzini described the species in 1883 as Agaricus nambí in the subgenus Pleurotus, from material collected in December 1879 near Guarapí,^[4] a locality in Yaguarón, Paraguarí Department, Paraguay.^[5] Pier Andrea Saccardo placed it in the genus Pleurotus.^[6] Ronald H. Petersen and Irmgard Krisai placed the fungus in the new genus Neonothopanus in 1999.^[7]