Laetisaria

Laetisaria
Scientific classification
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. Laetisaria fuciformis is of economic importance as the cause of "red thread disease" in turfgrass.

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