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| Genus: | Amethicium Hjortstam (1983)
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| Amethicium rimosum Hjortstam (1983)
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Amethicium is a fungal genus in the family Phanerochaetaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Amethicium rimosum, a crust fungus first reported from Tanzania in 1983. Amethicium is primarily characterized by its purple fruit body and a dimitic hyphal system (two types of hyphae: generative and skeletal). The felt-like tissue layer covering the substrate (the subiculum) comprises a thin layer of densely intertwined skeletal hyphae.