Lentinus  1825
Creators: name: Asif, Muhammad
name: Saba, Malka
name: Maula, Fazli
name: Raza, Mubashar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Polyporaceae
Lentinus

description: Key to known species of the genus Lentinus from Pakistan
1a. applanate pileus ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2.
1b. convex pileus ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3.
2. yellow brown pileus, yellowish lamellae, pale brown scurfy stipe, basidiospores oblong (7.2–11.5 × 3.5–5.3 µm), metuloids absent, dimitic hyphae, clamp connections present................................................................................................. Lentinus crinitus
3a. hairy pileus surface............................................................................................................................................................................ 4.
3b. scaly pileus surface............................................................................................................................................................................ 5.
4. brown pileus, lamellae white, stipe smooth, basidiospores cylindrical (6.5–7.7x2.7–3.6 μm) pileipellis a cutis, dimitic hyphae...... .................................................................................................................................................................................. Lentinus prolifer
5a. lamellae present ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7.
5b. pores present...................................................................................................................................................................................... 6.
6. brown pileus, white to ochreous lamellae, white to brown scaly stipe, basidiospores elongated to ellipsoid (6–7x2–3 μm), metuloids absent, pileipellis a cutis.......................................................................................................................................... Lentinus tigrinus
7a. smooth stipe....................................................................................................................................................................................... 8.
7b. scabrous stipe..................................................................................................................................................................................... 9.
8. brown pileus, white stipe, oblong to cylindrical (6.5–10 × 3–3.5 µm) basidiospores, metuloids absent, cylindrical cheilocystidia, pileipellis a trichoderm ........................................................................................................................................ Lentinus arcularius
9a. basidiospores oblong ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11.
9b. basidiospores cylindrical ................................................................................................................................................................. 10.
10. yellow brown pileus, white pores, yellowish brown scabrous stipe, basidiospores (4–7 x 2–2.5 µm .................... Lentinus brumali
11a. metuloids present............................................................................................................................................................................. 12.
11b. metuloids absent .............................................................................................................................................................................. 13.
12. brown to dull brown pileus, creamy to brown lamellae, basidiospores (5.1–7.9 × 2.3–4 µm), lageniform to utriform cheilocystidia, pileipellis a trichoderm ..................................................................................................................................... Lentinus punjabensis
13. brown pileus, white to pale brown lamellae, white to light brown stipe, basidiospores (5–8 × 1.5–3 µm), narrowly clavate to utriform cheilocystidia.................................................................................................................................... Lentinus squarrosulus
description: Published as part of Asif, Muhammad, Saba, Malka, Maula, Fazli & Raza, Mubashar, 2024, Lentinus punjabensis (Polyporaceae), a new species from Lal Suhanra National Park, southern Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 169-181 in Phytotaxa 642 (2) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13214285