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Crepidotus epibryus (Fr.) Quél., Fl. Mycol. France (Paris): 107 (1888)

Pleurotus septicus sensu auct.
Crepidotus pubescens sensu Kühner & Romagnesi (1953)
Pleurotus perpusillus sensu auct.
Pleurotellus septicus sensu auct. eur.
Crepidotus septicus sensu auct.
Agaricus epibryus Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 278 (1821)
Agaricus variabilis var. hypnophilus Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 3: 28, tab. 24:5a (1828)
Agaricus herbarum Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 1: 53 (1873) [1873-1874]
Pleurotus hypnophilus (Pers.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 384 (1887)
Crepidotus herbarum (Peck) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 888 (1887)
Pleurotellus hypnophilus (Pers.) Fayod, Annls Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 7 9: 339 (1889)
Pleurotellus graminicola Fayod, Annali R. Accad. Agric. Torino 35: 90 (1893) [1892]
Crepidotus commixtus Bres., in Krieger, Fung. Saxon. Exsicc. Pilze Sachsen's: nos 1766 & 1767 (1912)
Pleurotus commixtus (Bres.) Bres., Iconogr. mycol. (Paris) 6: 298 (1928)
Dochmiopus commixtus (Bres.) Singer, Beih. Botan. Centralbl. Abt. B 56: 146 (1936)
Pleurotellus herbarum (Peck) Singer, Lilloa 13: 84 (1947)

Habitat: On fallen wood (twigs etc.) of deciduous trees, dead herbaceous stems, decayed leaf litter, dead and living grass culms and stems. A single collection on a discarded plastic drinking cup. Often fruiting well into the winter or throughout the year.

Notes: Common and widespread. Better known as Pleurotellus graminicola.

Distribution: E: c, S: !, W: !, NI: !, Other: Channel Islands: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 33581; Scotland: K(M) 101745; Wales: K(M) 101775; NI: K(M) 82943; Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 101754

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), as Pleurotellus hypnophilus, p. 339
D:, in Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 6 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid agarics 6: 157 pp. (1989), p. 97-98
D:, in Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 6 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid agarics 6: 157 pp. (1989), as Pleurotellus graminicola, p. 96-97
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Agarics, 3rd part: Cortinariaceae 5: 338 pp. (2000), p. 298, pl. 387

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