Biology:Laetisaria

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Laetisaria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Corticiales
Family: Corticiaceae
Genus: Laetisaria
Burds. (1979)
Type species
Laetisaria fuciformis
(McAlpine) Burds. (1979)
Species
  • Laetisaria agaves
  • Laetisaria buckii
  • Laetisaria culmigena
  • Laetisaria endoxylon
  • Laetisaria lichenicola
  • Laetisaria lignigena
  • Laetisaria marsonii
  • Laetisaria nothofagicola
  • Laetisaria roseipellis
Synonyms

Limonomyces Stalpers & Loer (1982)

Laetisaria is a genus of fungi in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused, corticioid, smooth, and grow as plant pathogens on grasses or agave leaves, or as lichenicolous fungi on lichens, or on dead wood.[1] Laetisaria fuciformis is of economic importance as the cause of "red thread disease" in turfgrass.[2]

References

  1. "Digging Up the Roots: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Disentanglements in Corticiaceae s.s. (Corticiales, Basidiomycota) and Evolution of Nutritional Modes". Front. Microbiol. 12: 704802. 2021. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.704802. PMID 34512580. 
  2. Buczacki, S. and Harris, K., Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants, HarperCollins, 1998, p484

Wikidata ☰ Q10553033 entry