Flat Crep
Crepidotus applanatus (Person) Krummer
Flat Crep: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/19028
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30 Records

Description

Cap: White becoming pinkish-brown in age; smooth, margin inrolled. soft; hairy at point of attachment. Gills: White becoming pinkish-brown in age; radiate from attachment point; crowded/close (J. Solem, pers. comm.).

Where To Find

Groups on decaying hardwoods (rarely conifers).

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Crepidotus applanatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Crepidotaceae
Genus: Crepidotus
Species:
C. applanatus
Binomial name
Crepidotus applanatus
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

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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]

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

References

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  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.