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Lentinula
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Lentinula

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, contains eight species, especially in tropical regions.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Shiitake

speciesLentinula edodes

Lentinula boryana

complexLentinula boryana

New Zealand shiitake

speciesLentinula novae-zelandiae

Australian shiitake

speciesLentinula lateritia

American shitake

speciesLentinula raphanica

Lentinula aciculospora

speciesLentinula aciculospora

Lentinula guarapiensis

speciesLentinula guarapiensis

Lentinula ixodes

speciesLentinula ixodes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123352.