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 Image Scientific name Distribution Laxitextum bicolorNorth America Laxitextum incrustatumKenya, Tanzania Laxitextum lutescens tropical Africa References