Laetisaria

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Laetisaria fuciformis 258033360.jpg | image_caption = ''Laetisaria fuciformis'' | taxon = Laetisaria | authority = Burds. (1979) | type_species = ''Laetisaria fuciformis'' | type_species_authority = (McAlpine) Burds. (1979) | synonyms = * ''Limonomyces'' <small> Stalpers & Loer (1982)</small> | subdivision = *''Laetisaria agaves'' *''Laetisaria buckii'' *''Laetisaria culmigena'' *''Laetisaria endoxylon'' *''Laetisaria lichenicola'' *''Laetisaria lignigena'' *''Laetisaria marsonii'' *''Laetisaria nothofagicola'' *''Laetisaria roseipellis'' }}

'''''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.<ref name="Ghobad2021"/> ''Laetisaria fuciformis'' is of economic importance as the cause of "red thread disease" in turfgrass.<ref>Buczacki, S. and Harris, K., ''Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants'', HarperCollins, 1998, p484</ref>

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<ref name="Ghobad2021">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ghobad-Nejhad M, Langer E, Nakasone K, Diederich P, Nilsson RH, Rajchenberg M, Ginns J |title=Digging Up the Roots: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Disentanglements in Corticiaceae s.s. (Corticiales, Basidiomycota) and Evolution of Nutritional Modes |journal=Front. Microbiol. |date=2021 |volume=12 |article-number=704802 |doi=10.3389/fmicb.2021.704802|pmid=34512580 |pmc=8425454 |doi-access=free }}</ref> }}

Category:Corticiales Category:Agaricomycetes genera