Pleurocybella porrigens is a species of fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. The species is widespread in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. P. porrigens, known as the angel wing, is a white-rot wood-decay fungus on conifer wood, particularly hemlock (genus Tsuga). The flesh is thin and fragile compared to the oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ssp.). Pleurocybella porrigens was once regarded as edible, in the early 21st century, this was brought into question by deadly poisonings associated with its consumption. Synonyms for Pleurocybella porrigens include Pleurotus porrigens, Phyllotus porrigens, Dendrosarcus porrigens, Pleurotellus porrigens, and Nothopanus porrigens.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Pleurocybella porrigens across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Pleurocybella porrigens has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens17
Marker genes1
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections18
Countries6
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★ITS10
fungal barcode
07Deep time~108 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin108 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock originmass extinction
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 965 records
Wild obs. + sensor5 425
Museum / vouchered540
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO14 948 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy78% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 466≤1 km 1 372≤10 km 903>10 km 159
4 900 georeferenced · 525 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor5 425
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy57% within 1 km
≤100 m 37≤1 km 109≤10 km 90>10 km 19
255 georeferenced · 285 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence540
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions32 of 60 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Olocation not on record
84
TENN-Flocation not on record
43
WTUlocation not on record
33
Helsinki, FI
32
Vancouver, CA
23
Trondheim, NO
19
Bronx, US
18
Copenhagen, DK
17
Karlsruhe, DE
14
Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocagelocation not on record
12
Göteborg, SE
11
Blacksburg, US
11
Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centrelocation not on record
11
CA
10
Uppsala, SE
9
Chicago, US
9
Acadia Universitylocation not on record
8
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
8
Osaka, JP
7
Görlitz, DE
7
Tomioka, JP
7
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
6
Tartu, EE
6
Toronto, CA
6
Kew, GB
6
Philadelphia, US
4
Davis and Elkins Collegelocation not on record
4
Denver, US
4
KOMlocation not on record
4
Bardejov, SK
4
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
3
LDlocation not on record
3
WU-MYClocation not on record
3
TROMlocation not on record
2
BDBClocation not on record
2
St. Paul, US
2
JA-CAGPDS-CAMlocation not on record
2
Odawara, JP
2
Zürich, CH
2
ILLSlocation not on record
2
BRNUlocation not on record
2
Staten Island, US
2
Bando, JP
2
GJOlocation not on record
1
Metsähallituslocation not on record
1
Personal Herbarium of Paula DeSantolocation not on record
1
Stockholm, SE
1
Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record
1
Mlocation not on record
1
Paris, FR
1
Vitoria, ES
1
San Sebastián, ES
1
Royal Ontario Museum, TRTC Fungariumlocation not on record
1
Durham, US
1
FLASlocation not on record
1
nsnflocation not on record
1
Laramie, US
1
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record
1
National Mushroom Centre, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Bhutanlocation not on record
1
US
1
60 institutions · 483 of 540 vouchered records shown · 49 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA18 detections
Where the DNA of Pleurocybella porrigens was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found18
Studies independent surveys3
Countries6
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 18 detections have coordinates
Open the map6 countries0
On large, rotten log of Picea, together with…On rotten log of Pinus
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median7.40 °C 4.90–11.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter25.4 °C
Max temp (day)9.60 °C 6.50–15.2
Min temp (night)3.00 °C 2.30–9.80
Precipitation315 mm/mo 87.4–344
Air humidity64.9 % 60.9–66.3
Moisture balance263 mm/mo 37.0–263
Vapour deficit428 Pa 291–527
Wind speed2.90 m/s 2.50–4.70
Cloud cover44.6 % 44.6–56.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 16 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 965 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI18 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗