Biology:Laxitextum

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Laxitextum
Laxitextum bicolor 207260.jpg
Laxitextum bicolor
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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

Image Scientific name Distribution
2011-04-25 Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz 142910.jpg Laxitextum bicolor North America
Laxitextum incrustatum Kenya, Tanzania
Laxitextum lutescens tropical Africa

References

  1. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. 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. "Perspectives in the new Russulales". Mycologia 98 (6): 960–70. 2006. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.960. PMID 17486972. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5227099 entry