Cericium

Cericium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Cystostereaceae
Genus:	Cericium; Hjortstam (1995)
Type species
	Cericium luteoincrustatum; (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) Hjortstam (1995)
Synonyms
	Amethicium luteoincrustatum Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1986);

Cericium is a fungal genus in the family Cystostereaceae. It is a monotypic genus with the single species Cericium luteoincrustatum , a crust fungus.^[1] This species was originally described in 1986 by Kurt Hjortstam and Leif Ryvarden, who called it Amethicium luteoincrustatum. They placed it in the genus Amethicium based on microscopic similarities with the African species Amethicium rimosum.^[2]

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