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Crepidotus applanatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Crepidotaceae
Genus:	Crepidotus
Species:	C. applanatus
Binomial name
Crepidotus applanatus (Pers.) P.Kumm.
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. 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.

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

References

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.

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