Phyllotopsis nidulans (Pers.) Singer
(Orange Oyster, Orange Mock Oyster)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Phyllotopsis nidulans (Orange Oyster, Orange Mock Oyster)
Family	TRICHOLOMATACEAE (a family of toadstools)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Phyllotopsis nidulans is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ainsworth, M.	2004	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs	Research Reports, Report no 597, 75pp, English Nature
()	Bas, C.		Pleurotaceae	Bas, C. Pleurotaceae, 12pp, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2
	Lucas, A.	2005	Readers’ recent finds (Apr 2005)	Field Mycology Vol 6 (2): 64.
	Rogerson, S. & Ainsworth, M.	2005	Readers’ Recent Finds	Field Mycology Vol 16(2): 64.
	Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M.	1989	Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid Agarics	British Fungus Flora, vol 6, 157pp, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Phyllotopsis nidulans (Orange Oyster, Orange Mock Oyster) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TRICHOLOMATACEAE
(a family of toadstools)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Phyllotopsis nidulans (Orange Oyster, Orange Mock Oyster)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Phyllotopsis nidulans (Orange Oyster, Orange Mock Oyster)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Phyllotopsis nidulans is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)