Lentinus Fr.
Lentinus Fr. is a cosmopolitan genus with an estimated 63 species (Kirk et al. 2008) and 629 records under the name of Lentinus in the index fungorum (Index Fungorum 2016) and, species are able to survive over a wide temperature range, are abundant in boreal, temperate and tropical regions (Corner 1981; Pegler 1983; Karunarathna et al. 2011). The phylogenetic tree for Lentinus is presented in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 Phylogeny of Lentinus stuppeus and related species in the genus based on nrITS sequences, inferred by maximum likelihood (ML) analysis. Numbers at internodes refer to confidence estimates based on 100 rapid ML bootstraps (only those >50 are indicated). Lentinus stuppeus from Thailand is in blue. Leucoagaricus barssii and Leucoagaricus leucothites are outgroup taxa.
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