Suchbegriffe / Tags: Pleurotellus is now a dead genus, a synonym of Crepidotus, since its type species P. graminicola, despite its smooth ± white spores, is established beyond doubt as a Crepidotus, widely known by the earlier name C. herbarum, now known by the still earlier and thus correct name C. epibryus.
All the remaining Pleurotellus species that were interpretable at all and didn’t belong in Crepidotus now have new homes elsewhere. Two of these, listed in NCL (= Dennis, Orton & Hora, 1960: New Check List) as P. patelloides and P. candidissimus have become Chaetocalathus craterellus and Cheimonophyllum candidissimum. These two have both long intrigued me as I have never found either, despite statements in BFF6 (= British Fungus Flora Vol. 6, Watling & Gregory, 1989) that they are respectively “widespread in the southwest” and “rare but widespread throughout the British Isles”. I take this opportunity to add some notes on these two species and their known British distribution. But first I give a brief overview of the fate of the remaining species assigned to Pleurotellus in NCL and/or BFF6.
