Crepidotus cinnabarinus

Crepidotus cinnabarinus is a species of saprophytic fungus in the family Crepidotaceae with a stipeless sessile cap distributed in North America and Europe.^[3] It is highly conspicuous and often found on fallen branches and rotting trunks of broad leafed trees. In England it appears from late summer to autumn.^[4]

Crepidotus cinnabarinus
Crepidotus cinnabarinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Crepidotaceae
Genus:	Crepidotus
Species:	C. cinnabarinus
Binomial name
Crepidotus cinnabarinus Peck 1895[1]
Synonyms
Crepidotus decurrens [2]

Description

• Cap: Bright orangish red, the cap (pileus) of C. cinnabarinus is generally about 2 to 18mm in diameter and is convex, shell or fan shaped with a finely down felted surface when fresh, especially at its base, becoming minutely pitted or more or less bald and dry. The margin is irregular to fibrous and initially inrolled.^[5][4]
• Stipe (stem): Absent, but a pale, lateral pseudostem is sometimes present.^[5]
• Gills: Coloured pale brown with a red-orange edge, are crowded and adnexed.^[4]
• Spores: The spore print is buff. Spore shape is broadly elliptical to subspherical with a finely spiny to warty surface, measuring 8-8.5–8.5

× 5.5–6/5 μm in size.^[4]

• Absent features- No annulus (ring).

Mycological characteristics
	Gills on hymenium
	Cap is convex
	Hymenium is adnexed
	Lacks a stipe
	Spore print is buff
	Ecology is saprotrophic
	Edibility is inedible