''Crepidotus applanatus'' is a species of fungi in the family

Crepidotaceae The Crepidotaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi. Taxonomic Details The Crepidotaceae have recently undergone a revision based on phylogenetic analyses. The following characters are typical of this family: * saprotrophic on woody or herbac ...

. It was first described in 1796 by

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immig ...

and renamed by Paul Kummer in 1871. It is inedible.

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.

References

Crepidotaceae Inedible fungi {{Agaricales-stub