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 Panus incandescens
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Entirely whitish or dingy; pileus varying from umbilicate to deeply funnel-shaped, glabrous,
but very minutely wrinkled or virgate, margin persistently incurved, 4-10 cm. across, often
very irregular in form; flesh thick at the disc, whitish, tough gills deeply decurrent and
running as very fine lines almost to the base of the stem, thin, narrow, rather crowded; spores
7 x 4 µ; stem 2-4 cm. high, up to 8 mm. thick, slightly narrowed downwards.
Habitat: On logs, or on the ground, springing from buried wood.
Distribution: New Zealand. Australia.
Notes: Remarkable for being very luminous at night. Tufted and often irregular; variable in size.
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