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Laxitextum

Laxitextum Lentz 1956, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 229 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate an effuse-reflexed (stereoid), upper sterile surface tomentose, hymenophore smooth, whitish. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae with clamps, thin-walled, brown in the trama. Cystidia (gloeocystidia) cylindrical to subulate, frequently constricted, enclosed or slightly projecting. Basidia tubular to clavate, with 4-sterigmata, and with a basal clamp. Basidiospores ellipsoid to subglobose, finely asperulate to echinulate, amyloid.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17914

            Type Species: Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz 1956

Species:

Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz 1956

Laxitextum bicolor f. bicolor (Pers.) Lentz 1956;

Laxitextum bicolor f. luteoalbum A.L. Welden 1993

Laxitextum crassum (Lév.) Lentz 1956

Laxitextum globisporum Henkel & Ryvarden 2021

Laxitextum incrustatum Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1981

Laxitextum lutescens Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1981

Laxitextum roseocarneum (Schwein.) Lentz 1956

Laxitextum subrubrum R. Saha, A.K. Dutta & K. Acharya 2024

 

Reference:

Gorjón, S.P. (2020). Genera of corticioid fungi: keys, nomenclature, and taxonomy. Studies in Fungi 5(1), 125–309.

 

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