Corticium (fungus)

Corticium
Corticium roseum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Corticiales
Family:	Corticiaceae
Genus:	Corticium Pers. (1794)
Type species
Corticium roseum Pers. (1794)
Species
Corticium appalachiense Corticium boreoroseum Corticium canfieldii Corticium durangense Corticium floridense Corticium griseoeffusum Corticium malagasoroseum Corticium meridioroseum Corticium minnsiae Corticium mississippiense Corticium pini Corticium silviae Corticium thailandicum
Synonyms
Laeticorticium Donk (1956)

Corticium is a genus of fungi in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused, corticioid, smooth, and grow on dead wood. One species, C. silviae, is lichenicolous.^[1] The genus was formerly used in a very wide sense for almost any effused corticioid fungi.