Lentinula

Lentinula
Lentinula edodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Omphalotaceae
Genus:	Lentinula Earle
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

• Lentinula aciculospora
• Lentinula boryana
• Lentinula edodes
• Lentinula guarapiensis
• Lentinula lateritia
• Lentinula novae-zelandiae
• Lentinula raphanica
• Lentinula reticeps

See also

• List of Marasmiaceae genera

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. (abstract)

External links

• Lentinula in Index Fungorum