Lentinus

Lentinus
Lentinus tigrinus, Italy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Lentinus
Fr. (1825)
Type species
Lentinus crinitus
(L.) Fr. (1825)
Synonyms

Lentinus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus is widely distributed, with many species found in subtropical regions.

The genus name Lentinus is derived from the Latin lent, meaning "pliable", and inus, meaning "resembling".

Fungi of this genus have been recorded as occasional food of the pleasing fungus beetle Dacne quadrimaculata, but this might actually refer to Neolentinus as its known food species N. lepideus was formerly placed in Lentinus (see below). Also, the Polyporaceae "Panus strigosus" – an ambiguous and obsolete name that occasionally was used for some species now in Lentinus – has been claimed as food of the pleasing fungus beetle Triplax flavicollis; as this species has otherwise been noted to eat the common oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus exclusively, the "P. strigosus" claim is probably erroneous.

Species

Lentinus berteroi, Brazil
Lentinus squarrosulus
Lentinus swartzii, Panama
Lentinus stuppeus, South Africa
Lentinus velutinus, Ecuador

The genus Lentinus has historically been used as something of a "wastebin taxon" for various "gilled polypores", regardless of their actual relationships. Following the discovery that they actually belong in order Gloeophyllales, some well-known species – such as "L." lepideus (scaly sawgill) and "L." ponderosus (giant sawgill) – have been moved to a newly-established genus Neolentinus.

Even more recently, molecular data placed some presumed Polyporus species within the Lentinus radiation, and additional species such as Neofavolus suavissimus or Polyporus ciliatus may also belong here.

As of July 2017, Index Fungorum accepts 120 species of Lentinus. The genus includes:

References

  1. ↑ Fries, E.M. (1825). Systema Orbis Vegetabilis (in Latin). e Typographia academica. p. 77.
  2. ↑ "Synonymy: Lentinus Fr". Species Fungorum. Kew Mycology. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. ↑ Boyle, Wilford Wayne (1956): A revision of the Erotylidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera). Bull. AMNH 110: 61-172. PDF fulltext
  5. ↑ Goodrich, Michael A. and Springer, Charles A. (1999): The Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 25: 53-71.Fulltext
  6. ↑ Zmitrovich, Ivan V.; Kovalenko, Alexander E. (2016). "Lentinoid and polyporoid fungi, two generic conglomerates containing important medicinal mushrooms in molecular perspective" (PDF). International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. 18 (1): 23–38. doi:10.1615/IntJMedMushrooms.v18.i1.40. PMID 27279442.
  7. ↑ Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 30th June 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  8. ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.