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Protists aren't a group I'm familiar with but could it be the genus Holosticha?
Neat. Another paper reviewing fungal bioluminescence just came out on New year's eve, and according to which there are 132 bioluminescent species known to date. More than I realized!
Link to the (open access) paper for anyone curious: https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/11/1/19
It's easy to confuse the two because of how morphologically simple they are. Fun fact (or not depending on how much of a nerd you are), fungi that produce sticky droplets of spores on long stalks like this are often dispersed by arthropods, such as mites or springtails, which bump into the spore droplets as they walk along.
This looks more like Acremonium to me because the conidiogenous cells (the stalks producing droplets of spores at the tips) are very irregularly arranged. In Verticillium, the conidiogenous cells should be in whorls.
http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mycologywebpages/Moulds/Acremonium.html
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This is really bugging me. The article claims the fungus is an edible mushroom, but Pestalotiopsis (the spores on the right) is an endophytic, microscopic ascomycete. Not a mushroom and certainly not edible. So why is there a picture of Pluteus on the left? I can only imagine the author googled "Pestalotiopsis mushroom" and grabbed the first picture that came up.