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Laxitextum
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Laxitextum

Laxitextum is a genus of fungi in the family Hericiaceae. The widespread genus contains three species. It was circumscribed by Paul Lewis Lentz in 1955. 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.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Laxitextum bicolor

speciesLaxitextum bicolor

Laxitextum cremeum

speciesLaxitextum cremeum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 353115.