Beautiful crepeidot

The fruiting body is flat, sedentary, the leg is absent, attached to the substrate by the edge or upper surface.

A hat with a diameter of 1.5-6 (10) cm, from strongly convex to open, semicircular or rounded, conch-shaped, kidney-shaped, the edge is slightly wrapped. The surface is gelatinous, white, or cream in color, covered with dots of brown or buffy scales.

The plates are narrowly grown, frequent, narrow, light ocher-brown, the edge is even, whitish.

The pulp is creamy or with an olive tint, thick, not brittle, odorless, with a sweet taste, hygrophanic when ripe.

The remains of the bedspreads are missing.

Spore powder is brown. Spores are non-amyloid , yellowish-brown, ovoid or widely ellipsoidal, 7.5-10 x 5-7 microns in size, thin-walled, smooth.

Cheilocystids are colorless, cylindrical, ampoule-like, capitate or tortuous, can be septated, 30-60 × 5-8 microns.

The monophilic hyphal system , hyphae without buckles , with a diameter of 4-5 (20) microns. In the skin of the cap are arranged radially, there are inlays of brown pigment grains. The type of pileipellis is cutis .

The tram of the plates is subregular.

Four-spore basidia , rarely two-spore, club-shaped, with a central constriction, 25–33 × 6–8 μm in size, no buckle at the base ^[1] .

Saprotroph on the remnants of deciduous wood , rarely conifers, causes white rot. Known in the temperate climate of Europe , North America , it is found in poplar ( Populus ), willow ( Salix ), pine ( Pinus ), ash ( Fraxinus ), hawthorn ( Crataegus ) ^[2] .

Season: July - September (data for the Leningrad region ) ^[1] .

• Zmitrovich I.V., Malysheva V.F., Malysheva E.F., Spirin V.A. Pleurotoid fungi of the Leningrad region. - SPb. : All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Protection, 2004. - 122 p. - (Folia Cryptogamica Petropolitana). - ISSN 1810-9586. - S. 24-25.