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Crepidotus cesatii

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Species of fungus

Crepidotus cesatii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Crepidotaceae
Genus: Crepidotus
Species: C. cesatii
Binomial name
Crepidotus cesatii
(Sacc. 1877)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus variabilis var.'sphaerosporus
  • Crepidotus sphaerosporus
  • Dochmiopus sphaerosporus

Crepidotus cesatii, commonly known as the roundspored oysterling, is a species of saprophytic fungus in the family Crepidotaceae with a stipeless sessile cap. It is often found on woody and herbaceous plant debris from many different hosts including conifers, appearing from late summer to winter usually in small scattered groups. Often confused with Crepidotus variabilis, it can be distinguished by its different spores.

Description

  • Cap: The cap (pileus) of C. variabilis is generally about 0.4 to 2 cm in diameter is white and emerges kidney shaped soon becoming irregular and wavy forming patches of overlapping fruit bodies. The surface is very finely downy to velvety with a margin more or less inrolled.
  • Gills: Colour is whitish, then buff-brown with pink flush, fairly distant, decurrent to base.
  • Spores: The spore print is pinkish-buff, more pink than C. variabilis. Their shape is subspherical and minutely warty, measuring 6.5–8.5 × 5–7 μm in size.
  • Absent features: No stipe (stem) or annulus (ring).
Species of fungus
Crepidotus cesatiiView the Mycomorphbox template that generates the following listMycological characteristics
Gills on hymenium
No distinct cap
Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is buff
Ecology is saprotrophic

References

  1. Sylloge Fungorum 5: 879 (1887)
  2. Crepidotus cesatii in MycoBank.
  3. ^ Buczacki, Stefan; Shields, Chris; Ovenden, Denys (2012). "Crepidotus cesatii". Collins Fungi Guide. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780007466481.

Bibliography

  • Saccardo, P.A. 1887. Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae. Sylloge Fungorum. 5:1-1146
Taxon identifiers
Crepidotus cesatii
Agaricus cesatii


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