A SYNOPSIS OF THE WOOD-DECAY GENUS LAXITEXTUM (HERICIACEAE, RUSSULALES, BASIDIOMYCOTA) AND A NEW SPECIES FROM CAMEROON Author Henkel, Terry W. Author Ryvarden, Leif text Edinburgh Journal of Botany 2021 2021-03-19 78 348 1 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2021.348 journal article 10.24823/EJB.2021.348 1747-0036 Laxitextum Lentz., U.S. Dept. Agric. Monogr. 24: 18 (1956 [1955]). – Type : Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz. Basidiomata resupinate or subpileate, rather soft and pliable, upper side brown, tomentose or when older with adpressed hairs, sometimes slightly zonate; hymenium white in fresh specimens; margin finely fibrillose in the resupinate state, smooth or somewhat tomentose in pileate ones ; hyphal system monomitic; hyphae thin-walled; cystidia smooth; basidia clavate, tetrasterigmate, with a basal clamp connection; basidiospores thin-walled, ellipsoid to globose, echinulate, amyloid. 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USA . E-mail: twh5@ humboldt.edu. 2 Institute of Biological Sciences , University of Oslo , PO Box 1066 Blindern , N-0316 Oslo , Norway . Laxitextum , although a species-poor genus as currently known, is well characterised by its combination of stereoid basidiomata with brown trama and a white or pale-coloured subhymenial layer, enclosed or partly projecting gloeocystidia, and amyloid, echinulate basidiospores.