Crepidotus applanatus

Crepidotus applanatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Crepidotaceae
Genus:	Crepidotus
Species:	C. applanatus
Binomial name
Crepidotus applanatus (Pers.) P.Kumm.
Synonyms
Agaricus applanatus Pers.

Crepidotus applanatus is a species of fungus in the family Crepidotaceae. It was first described in 1796 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon and renamed by Paul Kummer in 1871.[1][2] It is inedible.[3]

Description

Like other Crepidotus, it has brown spore powder. It grows on deciduous wood, to which it is attached at the side by at most only a rudimentary stem (it is "pleurotoid"). The cap grows up to 5 cm across and is hygrophanous, white to ochraceous when damp and drying whitish. The spores, around 5 - 6 μm, are almost spherical and warty. It is distinguished from the very similar Crepidotus stenocystis by the shape of the Cheilocystidia (clavate and unbranched) and the habitat on broad-leaf timber.[4][5]

Mycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Lacks a stipe
	Spore print is brown
	Ecology is parasitic
	Edibility is inedible

References

1. "Crepidotus applanatus, Flat Oysterling, identification". www.first-nature.com.
2. "Crepidotus applanatus (MushroomExpert.Com)". www.mushroomexpert.com.
3. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
4. Knudsen, Thomas; Vesterholt, J., eds. (2018). Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, cyphelloid and gasteroid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. p. 979. ISBN 978-87-983961-3-0.
5. Eyssartier, G.; Roux, P. (2013). Le guide des champignons France et Europe (in French). Belin. p. 984. ISBN 978-2-7011-8289-6.