{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Lentinula edodes.jpg | image_alt = "Lentinula edodes" | image_caption = ''Lentinula edodes'' | taxon = Lentinula | authority = Earle | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = | type_species = ''Lentinula cubensis'' | type_species_authority = (Berk. & Curtis) Earle ex Pegler | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref>{{cite web |title=''Lentinula'' |url=http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=17924 |website=MycoBank |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en }}</ref> | subdivision = See text }}
'''''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 was erected by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909,<ref name=Earle1909/> and as of 2023 contains ten species,<ref name=CoL2023/> principally found in tropical regions.<ref name=Kirk2008/>
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px||''Lentinula aciculospora'' <small>R.H. Petersen 2000</small> ||Costa Rica |- |120px|| ''Lentinula boryana'' <small>(Berk. & Mont.) Pegler 1976</small> ||Subtropical America |- |120px|| ''Lentinula edodes'' <small>(Berk.) Pegler 1976</small> ||Asia |- |120px|| ''Lentinula guarapiensis'' <small>(Speg.) Pegler 1983</small> ||Paraguay |- | |''Lentinula ixodes'' <small>(Secr. ex Mont.) J.S. Oliveira, T.S. Cabral, Vargas-Isla & N.K. Ishik. 2022</small> |Amazon rainforest |- |120px|| ''Lentinula lateritia'' <small>(Berk.) Pegler 1983</small> || South-east Asia and Australasia |- | |''Lentinula madagasikarensis'' <small>Buyck, Randrianjohany & Looney 2021</small> |Madagascar |- |120px|| ''Lentinula novae-zelandiae'' <small>(G. Stev.) Pegler 1983</small> ||New Zealand |- |120px|| ''Lentinula raphanica'' <small>(Murrill) Mata & R.H. Petersen 2001</small> ||Amazon rainforest |- ||| ''Lentinula reticeps'' <small>(Mont.) Murrill (1915)</small> ||United States |- |}
==See also== * List of Marasmiaceae genera * Shiitake
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=CoL2023>{{Cite web |title=Lentinula (genus in Omphalotaceae) |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=COL}}</ref>
<ref name=Earle1909>{{cite journal |title=The genera of North American gill fungi |journal=Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden |year=1909|author=Earle FS. |volume=5 |pages=373–451 (see p. 416)}}</ref>
<ref name=Kirk2008>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=368 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last=Guzman |first=G. |last2=Salmones |first2=D. |last3=Tapia |first3=F. |year=1997 |title=''Lentinula boryana'': morphological variations, taxonomic position, distribution and relationships with ''Lentinula edodes'' and related species |journal=Reports of the Tottori Mycological Institute |volume=35 |pages=1–28 |url=http://trophort.com/004/495/004495199.html |archive-date=2007-09-27 |access-date=2007-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927180045/http://trophort.com/004/495/004495199.html |url-status=dead }}
==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Lentinula'' Earle |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:17924}}
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Category:Marasmiaceae Category:Agaricales genera
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