title: Laxitextum
text: # 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.
  
  ## Species
  
  | Scientific name | Distribution |
  | - | - |
  | Laxitextum bicolor | North America |
  | Laxitextum incrustatum | Kenya, Tanzania |
  | Laxitextum lutescens | tropical Africa |
  