Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler is a fungus in the Omphalotaceae family, order Agaricales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler

Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler

Lentinula boryana is an edible Omphalotaceae fungus found in subtropical Americas, and is the type species of genus Lentinula.

Family
Genus
Lentinula
Order
Agaricales
Class
Agaricomycetes

About Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler

Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler is an edible agaric fungus species belonging to the family Omphalotaceae. It occurs naturally in subtropical regions of the Americas. First described as Agaricus boryanus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Camille Montagne in 1849, the species was transferred to the genus Lentinula and given its current scientific name by David Pegler in 1976. It serves as the type species for the genus Lentinula.

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Taxonomy

Fungi Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes Agaricales Omphalotaceae Lentinula

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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