Laxitextum

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Laxitextum
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Laxitextum bicolor
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Hericiaceae
Genus: Laxitextum
Lentz (1956)
Type species
Laxitextum bicolor
(Pers.) Lentz (1956)
Species

Laxitextum is a genus of fungi in the family Hericiaceae. The widespread genus contains three species. [1] It was circumscribed by Paul Lewis Lentz in 1955. [2] Species in the genus have fruit bodies that are effused (stretched out flat) to reflexed (with edges turned up) and a smooth hymenium. Molecular analysis shows that the genus groups in a clade with the genera Hericium and Dentipellis . [3]

Species

ImageScientific nameDistribution
2011-04-25 Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz 142910.jpg Laxitextum bicolor North America
Laxitextum incrustatum Kenya, Tanzania
Laxitextum lutescens tropical Africa

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Lentz PL. (1955). Stereum and Allied Genera of Fungi in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture. p. 18.
  3. Miller SL, Larsson E, Larsson KH, Verbeken A, Nuytinck J (2006). "Perspectives in the new Russulales". Mycologia. 98 (6): 960–70. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.960. PMID   17486972.