Lentinula

Lentinula
Lentinula edodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Omphalotaceae
Genus: Lentinula
Type species
Lentinula cubensis
(Berk. & Curtis) Earle ex Pegler

Lentinula is a small genus of wood-inhabiting agarics. The neotropical species Lentinula boryana (= L. cubensis) is the type species. However, the best-known species is L. edodes, the shiitake. The genus, erected by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909,[1] contains eight species, especially in tropical regions.[2]

Species

See also

References

  1. ↑ Earle FS. (1909). "The genera of North American gill fungi". Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 5: 373–451 (see p. 416).
  2. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

Further reading

  • Guzman, G.; Salmones, D.; Tapia, F. (1997). "Lentinula boryana: morphological variations, taxonomic position, distribution and relationships with Lentinula edodes and related species". Reports of the Tottori Mycological Institute. 35: 1–28.
  • "Lentinula Earle". Atlas of Living Australia.



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