07/Sep/25, 3:30 PM
Kloostrimetsa soo õpperada, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti
Deciduous boggy forest, on dead aspen tree branch
59°28'01.5"N 24°53'23.3"E
🌡️ 22°C 🌥️🌫️ Partly sunny, upcoming dense fog from the sea
Original Instagram postCrepidotus calolepis
scaly oysterling
- Scientific identification
- Crepidotus calolepis (Fr.) P.Karst.
- Family
- Mycenaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Crepidotus
Names across languages
- English: scaly oysterling
- German: Braunschuppiges Krüppelfüßchen
- Finnish: Haaparuostevinokas
- Estonian: Soomus-pisiservik
- Russian: Крепидотус красивочешуйчатый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-07.
Hymenium
Gills, radiating from the point of attachment, close, whitish when young, later dull brown
Cap
Semicircular or fan-shaped, cap surface with fine brown scales, pallid cream/yellowish under the fibrils, slightly rubbery texture when moist due to a gelatinized zone under pileipellis
Hymenium Attachment
N/A (no cap-stem structure; gills attach at the lateral or basal point of the cap)
Stipe
Absent
Spore print
Spore print snuff brown
Ecology
Saprobic on dead hardwood (oak and aspen), sometimes bark of living trees, solitary to gregarious, in moist conditions, autumn to early winter
Edibility
Edibility unknown, unsubstantial for culinary use
Fruit body
Fruit body small-to-medium
Dimensions
Cap 1–5 cm diameter
Chemical reactions
KOH on cap surface dull-reddish, on gills red
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Mild
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid to subamygdaliform, smooth, 6–9 × 4.5–6.0 µm, basidia 4-sterigmate, 18–25 × 4–6 µm, cheilocystidia present (30-60 × 3-5 µm)
Overview
Small, wood-decay oysterling with a rubbery, scaly cap
1879). Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 414.
Field encounters
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