Agyrium

Agyrium is a genus of saprophytic fungi in the family Agyriaceae. It probably evolved from a lichen ancestor, as it is closely related to many lichenized species of fungi.

==Taxonomy== Agyrium was first proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum, although the name was not published validly as a type species was not indicated; Fries published the name validly a year later in the second volume of the same work. The species Agyrium rufum was assigned as the type by Frederic Clements and Cornelius Lott Shear in 1931.