
Family Hericiaceae
Persoonia 3(2): 269 (1964)
Type: Hericium Pers., Neues Magazin für die Botanik 1: 109 (1794)
Three genera are found in North America. The toothed bracket Creolophus cirrhatus was moved to Hericium cirrhatum.
- Dentipellis is effused-reflexed with teeth.
- Hericium has white teeth on branches or under a cap.
- Laxitextum is stereoid with whitish smooth underside.
- Taxonomy:
- Index Fungorum editorial comment:
Based on Hydnaceae subfamily Hericieae T.L. Nikolaeva, Flora Plantarum Cryptogamarum USSR 6(2): 212 (1961), but not a new combination (Art. 33.1).
- Related links:
- Miller, S. L., E. Larsson, K-H. Larsson, A. Verbeken, J. Nuytinck. 2006. Perspectives in the new Russulales. Mycologia 98(6): 960-970.
- Taxon links:
- 80854 MycoBank ; Index Fungorum