Common Name: Luminescent Panellus; Bitter Oyster
Width of cap: 1/2-1 1/4 inches
Cap: Convex with an incurved margin at first, semicircular to kidney-shaped or shell-shaped in outline; dingy white to pale brown, orangish buff or tan; surface dry, scurfy to minutely scaly; flesh yellowish pink, tough, odor not distinctive
Gills: Broadly attached or subdecurrent with numerous crossveins; close to crowded; colored more or less like the cap.
Stalk: 1/4- 5/8 inches long when present; thick, eccentric to lateral; whitish to yellowish brown; pruinose to scurfy, or hairy at the base
Spore Print: White
Occurrence: In groups on logs, stumps, and fallen branches of broad-leaved trees; saprobic; can be found year round but is most frequently encountered in the fall; common.
Edibility: NOT EDIBLE, AND BY SOME ACCOUNTS POSSIBLY POISONOUS.
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