Fungi > Basidiomycota > Agaricomycetes > Agaricale > Family Crepidotaceae.
This mushroom, with a mature cap up to nearly 1.5 cm across lives on wood or leaf litter.
There is no stalk with the cap attached directly to the substrate.
It may be attached at the side or to upper surface.
Occasionally there is a 1 to 2 mm stalk.
The white cap has a lot of white hairs that are sometimes matted.
New fruit bodies look like a fluffy ball of hair.
Long gills radiate from the point of attachment.
There are numerous short lamellulae between them.
The gills age from white to brown.
The reddish-brown spore print is said to have large, punctate, ellipsoid spores.
Similar appearing fungi include Crepidotus variabilis and young Cheimonophyllum candidissimum.
J.F.
