''Pleurotus smithii'' is a species of

fungus A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from th ...

in the family

Pleurotaceae The Pleurotaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have white spores. The family contains four genera ('' Nematoctonus'' has been synonymized with '' Hohenbuehelia'', but not all of its species have been moved to valid genera) ...

, described as new to science by mycologist

Gastón Guzmán Gastón Guzmán Huerta (August 26, 1932 – January 12, 2016), a Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, was an authority on the genus ''Psilocybe''. Career He was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, in 1932. His interest in mycology began in 1955 when as ...

in 1975.Guzmán, G. (1975) , In: Beih. Nova Hedwigia 55:100. Like other species of the '' Pleurotus cystidiosus'' clade, it has an

anamorphic Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio. It also refers to the projection format in which a distorted ...

form, named ''

Antromycopsis ''Antromycopsis'' is a genus of fungi in the Pleurotaceae family. The genus, an anamorphic form of ''Pleurotus ''Pleurotus'' is a genus of gilled mushrooms which includes one of the most widely eaten mushrooms, '' P. ostreatus''. Species of ...

guzmanii''. ''P. smithii'' can be distinguished from ''P. cystidiosus'' by lack of

pleurocystidia A cystidium (plural cystidia) is a relatively large cell found on the sporocarp of a basidiomycete (for example, on the surface of a mushroom gill), often between clusters of basidia. Since cystidia have highly varied and distinct shapes that ar ...

or them being only present in young stages as cystidioid elements, short hyphal segments of the

conidiophores A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an Asexual reproduction, asexual, non-motility, motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are al ...

in the anamorph, and long subcylindrical

cheilocystidia A cystidium (plural cystidia) is a relatively large cell found on the sporocarp of a basidiomycete (for example, on the surface of a mushroom gill), often between clusters of basidia. Since cystidia have highly varied and distinct shapes that ar ...

in the teleomorph form.

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* Fungi described in 1975 Pleurotaceae {{Agaricales-stub

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