<i>Lentinula ixodes</i> comb. nov. (<i>Omphalotaceae</i>, <i>Agaricales</i>) including new records in Brazil

Abstract

At least 52 species of edible mushrooms have been documented a from the Amazon Forest in scienti c reports, including Lentinula raphanica (Murril) Mata & R. H. Petersen, eaten by indigenous people, such as the Uitoto and Andoke in Colombia (Vasco-Palacios, Suaza, Castaño-Betancur, & Franco-Molano, 2008) and the Yanomami in Brazil (Sanuma et al., 2016). Yanomami from the Awaris region, Roraima State, Brazil, refer to L. raphanica as "Naönaö amo" (Sanöma language), an onomatopoeia of the noise made when eating the mushroom (Sanuma et al., 2016). They cook L. raphanica by boiling it in salted water and serve it with a broth accompanied by "beiju" (dough made from the starch of Manihot esculenta Crantz or cassava) (Sanuma et al., 2016).The genus Lentinula Earle (Earle, 1909) was typi ed by Lentinula cubensis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Earle ex Pegler [= Lentinula boryana (Berk. & Mont.) Pegler], but remained in Lentinus Fr. (Singer, 1941, 1952, 1955) until Pegler (1975 distinguished the two genera based on the structure of the hyphae. Lentinus boryanus (Berk. & Mont.) Singer and Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer (shiitake) were then recombined into Lentinula. Pegler (1983a) proposed three more combinations: Lentinula guarapiensis (Speg.) Pegler, Lentinula novae-zelandiae (Stev.) Pegler and Lentinula lateritia (Berk.

A global phylogenomic analysis of the shiitake genus Lentinula

“…Contrary to prior analyses of ITS and tef 1-α sequences ( 10 ), L. aciculospora is the sister group of the Asian–Australasian group, which renders the lineages from the American tropics paraphyletic. Genome data are lacking for several tropical species of Lentinula , including L. madagasikarensis (Madagascar), L. platinedodes (Vietnam), L. guarapiensis (Paraguay), L. ixodes (Brazil) ( 43 ), and undescribed specimens from Central Africa ( SI Appendix , Table S1 ), which precludes historical biogeographic analyses. Nevertheless, it is most likely that Lentinula arose in tropical or subtropical regions, perhaps the Neotropics, as suggested by Menolli et al.…”