Lentinula is a small genus of wood-inhabiting agarics. The neotropical species Lentinula boryana (= L. cubensis) is the type species, however the best known species is L. edodes, the shiitake. The genus was erected by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909.

References

• Guzman G, Salmones D, Tapia F. (1997). Lentinula boryana: morphological variations, taxonomic position, distribution and relationships with Lentinula edodes and related species. Reports of the Tottori Mycological Institute 35:1–28. (abstract)