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

Lentinus edodes (Berk.), Sing. Mycologia 34:451. 1941.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 4-10 cm, convex then plane, ochraceous to brown, covered by white squamules, margin incurved. Gills crowded, notched, white. Stipe central to eccentrical, 3-5 × 1-2 cm, solid, tough, brown, with squamules. Annulus membranous, evanescent. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 5-7 × 3.5-4 μm. Cystidia clavate. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Meifeng, on rotten wood,, 21 Apr. 1999, CWN 03917 (TNM F0012674).

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

Asia

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: A well known edible mushroom in Asia.