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Laxitextum bicolor | |
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Genus: | Laxitextum
Lentz (1956)
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Laxitextum bicolor (
Pers.) Lentz (1956)
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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]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Laxitextum bicolor | North America | |
Laxitextum incrustatum | Kenya, Tanzania | |
Laxitextum lutescens | tropical Africa |
Laxitextum | |
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Laxitextum bicolor | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Division: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | Laxitextum
Lentz (1956)
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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]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Laxitextum bicolor | North America | |
Laxitextum incrustatum | Kenya, Tanzania | |
Laxitextum lutescens | tropical Africa |