Erythricium

Erythricium is a genus of fungi in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused, corticioid, and grow on wood or are lichenicolous. Erythricium salmonicolor is a widespread and commercially significant plant pathogen causing "pink disease" of Citrus and other trees.^[1]

Erythricium
Erythricium laetum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Corticiales
Family:	Corticiaceae
Genus:	Erythricium J. Erikss. & Hjortstam (1970)
Type species
Erythricium laetum
Species
E. atropatanum E. aurantiacum E. hypnophilum E. salmonicolor E. vernum
Synonyms
Marchandiobasidium Diederich & Schultheis (2003)