Black Jelly Oyster

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Broadleaved trees

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Fagus
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Fraxinus
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Acer pseudoplatanus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Alnus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Corylus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Ilex aquifolium
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Populus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Laburnum anagyroides
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Malus sylvestris sens.str.
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Salix
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Tilia
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Sambucus nigra
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Ulmus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Ulex europaeus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed stem of Rosa
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed stem of Rubus fruticosus agg.
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Pinopsida
Other: unusual host/prey

Resupinatus applicatus (Batsch) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit
PI. 1: 617. 1821.
Agaricus applicatus Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 171. 1786. Pleurotus applicatus Gill. Champ. Fr. 335. 1876.
Pileus firm, submembranous, cup-shaped, resupinate to refiexed, sessile, gregarious, 4-7 mm. broad; surface dark-gray or blackish with a tinge of blue, subpruinose to subglabrous^ villose at the base, often striatulate on the margin : lamellae broad, thick, distant, paler than the surface of the pileus or concolorous, the edges usually paler: spores globose, smooth, hyaline,
4-5 M.
Type locality: Jena, Germany.
Habitat: On dead bark and wood.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Resupinatus applicatus, commonly known as the smoked oysterling or the black jelly oyster, is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Resupinatus. First described in 1786 as Agaricus applicatus by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch, it was transferred to Resupinatus by Samuel Frederick Gray in 1821.