Appearance
Cap: 1-5 cm across; semicircular, shell-shaped, or fan-shaped; broadly convex and remaining so; whitish to dull brownish or yellowish underneath orangish brown to reddish brown fibrils that may become aggregated into small scales; the fibrils sometimes sparse; often with orangish fuzz near the point of attachment to the substrate.Gills: Crowded, close, or nearly distant; when young whitish, yellowish, yellow, or orange; becoming brown with maturity.
Stem: Absent.
Flesh: Soft; thin; whitish.
Naming
Synonyms= Agaricus crocophyllus Berk., 1847
= Crepidotus applanatus var. crocophyllus (Berk.) Pilát
≡ Crepidotus crocophyllus Berk.
= Crepidotus dorsalis (Peck) Sacc.
= Crepidotus dorsalis Peck
Distribution
widely distributed in North America.
Habitat
Saprobic; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously on the dead wood of hardwoods (and occasionally on the wood of conifers)References:
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