Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Polyporales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Lentinus tigrinus
 
   
   
 Author:

Lentinus tigrinus 1825. (Bull.) Fr., Syst. Orb. Veg. 78. 1825.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 4-11 cm, umbilicate, white to ochraceous, covered by white scales, margin undulate. Gills decurrent, crowded, white. Stipe eccentrical or lateral, 1.2-2 × 0.3-1.5 cm, solid, white to brown, with scales. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 6-7 × 3-3.5 μm. Cystidia clavate. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Miaoli: Tahu, 10 Jan. 1996, C.Y. Tseng, CWN 01366 (TNM F4728).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous. On rotten wood of broad-leaved forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1991; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible when young.