''Crepidotus cesatii'', commonly known as the roundspored oysterling, is a species of
saprophytic fungus 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 ...
with a
stipeless sessile
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
* Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
* Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
* Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
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
''Crepidotus variabilis'' is a species of saprophytic fungi in the family Crepidotaceae. It is commonly known as a variable oysterling in the United Kingdom and is seen there in autumn. May occur solitary, but more often in small scattered grou ...
'', it can be distinguished by its different spores.
Description
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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
The micrometre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is a unit of length in the International System of Unit ...
in size.[
*Absent features: No stipe (stem) or annulus (ring).
]
References
Bibliography
*Saccardo, P.A. 1887. Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae. Sylloge Fungorum. 5:1-1146
Crepidotaceae
Fungi described in 1877
Fungus species
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