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smoked oysterling
Resupinatus applicatus (Batsch) Gray 1821
50.8843, 5.98617
Field Notes
Description:
Resupinatus applicatus, Smoked Oysterling. You really need your hand lens to admire this beautiful little fungus. It will appear to be growing upside down, with the cap attached to a dead branch (no stipe) and the gills facing you. The fruiting body is 0.5 - 1.5 cm in diameter, roundish, with minutely scalloped cap edges. It is brownish grey, with paler grey gills, which are widely spaced with shorter intermediate gills. There are only two records for Guernsey, but it is so small it has probably been overlooked. I know the name is tempting, but it is classed as inedible
( http://web.guernsey.net/~cdavid/botany/files/resupinatus%20applicatus/i… )
Habitat:
Derivation of name: Applicatus means "near" or
"attached" or "close" and probably refers to the absence
of a stipe and the appearence of the cap directly (closely)
attached to the wood.
Synonyms: Pleurotus applicatus
Common name(s): Black jelly oyster.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; scattered
or in dense groups on the underside of deciduous logs;
June through November.
Dimensions: Caps 2-6 mm wide.
Cap: Dark bluish-gray to grayish-black; dry; hairy.
Gills: Arising from point of attachment; whitish at first,
becoming blackish.
Spore print: White.
Stipe: Absent.
Veil: Absent.
Edibility: Unknown.
Comments: These fruitbodies are very tiny and not
likely to be found unless the undersides of logs are
searched
( http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/gilled%20fungi/species%20pag… )
Notes:
Resupinatus applicatus, commonly known as the smoked oysterling or the black jelly oyster, is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Resupinatus. First described in 1786 as Agaricus applicatus by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch,[1] it was transferred to Resupinatus by Samuel Frederick Gray in 1821
( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=119873 ), ( http://www.soortenbank.nl/soorten.php?soortengroep=paddenstoelen&id=697 )
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