Corticium roseum

Corticium roseum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Corticiales
Family:	Corticiaceae
Genus:	Corticium
Species:	C. roseum
Binomial name
	Corticium roseum; Pers. (1794)
Synonyms
	Aleurodiscus roseus(Pers.) Höhn. & Litsch. (1906); Athelia rosea(Pers.) Chevall. (1826); Corticium erikssoniiJülich (1982); Corticium lombardiae(M.J. Larsen & Gilb.) Boidin & Lanq.; Corticium roseolum Massee (1891); Himantia rosea(Pers.) Fr. (1821); Hypochnus roseus(Pers.) J. Schröt. (1889); Laeticorticium lombardiaeM.J. Larsen & Gilb. (1978); Laeticorticium pulverulentum J. Erikss. & Ryvarden (1977); Laeticorticium roseum(Pers.) Donk (1956); Lyomyces roseus(Pers.) P. Karst. (1882); Peniophora rosea(Pers.) Massee (1890); Terana rosea(Pers.) Kuntze (1891); Thelephora rosea(Pers.) Pers. (1801)

Last updated October 01, 2025

Corticium roseum is a species of fungus in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused, smooth, corticioid, and pink. The species has a wide, north and south temperate distribution and in Europe is typically found on dead, attached branches of Salix and Populus .

Taxonomy

Corticium roseum was originally described by Persoon in 1794 as part of his new genus Corticium . It was later selected as the type species of the genus.^[1] Morphological differences between collections indicated that C. roseum might be a species complex and several new species were described. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has partly confirmed this. Corticium boreoroseum , C. medioroseum , and C. malagasoroseum are separate species, based on DNA evidence, whilst C. erikssonii and C. lombardiae are synonyms of C. roseum.^[2]

References

↑ Donk MA. (1963). The generic names proposed for Hymenomycetes XIII. Taxon12: 158-159.
↑ Ghobad-Nejhad M, Langer E, Nakasone K, Diederich P, Nilsson RH, Rajchenberg M, Ginns J (2021). "Digging Up the Roots: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Disentanglements in Corticiaceae s.s. (Corticiales, Basidiomycota) and Evolution of Nutritional Modes". Front. Microbiol. 12 704802. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.704802 . PMC 8425454 . PMID 34512580.

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[1] Donk MA. (1963). The generic names proposed for Hymenomycetes XIII. Taxon12: 158-159.

[Ghobad2021-2] Ghobad-Nejhad M, Langer E, Nakasone K, Diederich P, Nilsson RH, Rajchenberg M, Ginns J (2021). "Digging Up the Roots: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Disentanglements in Corticiaceae s.s. (Corticiales, Basidiomycota) and Evolution of Nutritional Modes". Front. Microbiol. 12 704802. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.704802 . PMC 8425454 . PMID 34512580.

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