Lentinus levis is a species of edible[7][8] fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It was described by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1853 and given its current name in 1915 by William Murrill. As a saprotroph, it can be cultivated.[7] In nature it grows in subtropical to tropical climate.[9] It is recognized and sometimes collected as a food by Huichol people of Mexico, although they prefer eating other, less chewy mushrooms.[8] For a long time thought to be a member of Pleurotus genus, it has been moved to genus Lentinus.[10]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Lentinus |
| Species: | L. levis
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| Binomial name | |
| Lentinus levis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill 1915
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Pleurotus levis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Singer 1951[1] | |
Description
editFruiting bodies of Lentinus levis resemble those of Pleurotus dryinus and can be confused with them. Both are centrally stipitate, have decurrent lamellae and exhibit a partial veil (which is more persistent in P. dryinus and can be lacking in young L. levis). The pileus surface in L. levis is usually velutinous, while in P. dryinus it is radially fibrillose. L. levis produces a floral odor resembling that of Pleurotus pulmonarius).[11]
References
edit- ^ Singer (1951) , In: Lilloa 22:271
- ^ Kuntze (1898) , In: Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 3(2):506
- ^ Kuntze (1891) , In: Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2:866
- ^ Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1859) , In: Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 3 4:296
- ^ Mont. (1856) , In: Syll. gen. sp. crypt. (Paris):146
- ^ Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1853) , In: Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 2 12:427
- ^ a b Sobal, M.; Morales, P.; Martinez, W.; Pegler, D. N.; Martinez Carrera, D. (1997). "Cultivation of Lentinus levis in Mexico". Micologia Neotropical Aplicada (Mexico). ISSN 0187-8921.
- ^ a b Haro-Luna, Mara Ximena; Ruan-Soto, Felipe; Guzmán-Dávalos, Laura (2019-09-16). "Traditional knowledge, uses, and perceptions of mushrooms among the Wixaritari and mestizos of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico". IMA Fungus. 10 (1): 16. doi:10.1186/s43008-019-0014-6. ISSN 2210-6359. PMC 7325656. PMID 32647620.
- ^ Peterson, Ronald H.; Hughes, Karen W. & Psurtseva, Nadezhda. "Biological Species in Pleurotus". The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Archived from the original on 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
- ^ For P. levis, see "Species Fungorum - Pleurotus levis page". Species Fungorum. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
- ^ Petersen, Ronald H.; Nicholl, David B. G.; Hughes, Karen W. (1997). "Mating systems of some putative polypore - agaric relatives". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 207 (3–4): 135–158. doi:10.1007/BF00984386. ISSN 0378-2697. S2CID 28789058.
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