Laxitextum

Laxitextum
	Laxitextum bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Russulales
Family:	Hericiaceae
Genus:	Laxitextum; Lentz (1956)
Type species
	Laxitextum bicolor; (Pers.) Lentz (1956)
Species
	L. bicolor; L. incrustatum; L. lutescens;

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
	Laxitextum bicolor	North America
	Laxitextum incrustatum	Kenya, Tanzania
	Laxitextum lutescens	tropical Africa

References

^ 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.
^ Lentz PL. (1955). Stereum and Allied Genera of Fungi in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture. p. 18.
^ 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.

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[Kirk_2008-1] 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.

[Lentz_1955-2] Lentz PL. (1955). Stereum and Allied Genera of Fungi in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture. p. 18.

[Miller_2006-3] 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.

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