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Lepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungi order Lepidostromatales). The genus is distinguished from all other clavarioid fungi fungi ( Multiclavula ( Cantharellales), Ertzia ( Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces ( Lepidostromatales)) by having a distinctly thallus (similar to a 'Coriscium-type' thallus) with scattered to dense rounded to squamules. Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.
The taxon Lepidostroma asianum , described from Japan, is considered synonymous with the Asian species Sulzbacheromyces sinensis. Other species once classified in this genus have since been transferred to other genera, including:
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