Lentinula lateritia

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| genus = Lentinula

| species = lateritia

| authority = (Berk.) Pegler (1983)

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Lentinula lateritia is a species of agaric fungus in the family Omphalotaceae. It is found in South-east Asia and Australasia, except for New Zealand. Originally described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1881 as a species of Agaricus, it was transferred to the genus Lentinula in 1983 by David Pegler.

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{{cite journal |author=Berkeley MJ. |title=Australian fungi – II |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |year=1881 |volume=18 |issue=111 |pages=383–9 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/230912 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1881.tb01261.x}}

{{cite journal |author=Hibbett DS. |title=Shiitake mushrooms and molecular clocks: historical biogeography of Lentinula |journal=Journal of Biogeography |year=2001 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=213–41 |url=http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/Reprints%20PDFs/Hibbett%202001%20J%20Biogeogr.pdf |doi=10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00528.x|s2cid=21803882 }}

{{cite book |author=Kuntze O. |title=Revisio generum plantarum |year=1891 |volume=2 |publisher=A. Felix |location=Leipzig |language=Latin |page=866}}

{{cite journal |author=Pegler D. |title=The genus Lentinula (Tricholomataceae tribe Collybieae) |journal=Sydowia |year=1983 |volume=36 |pages=227–39 |url=http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Sydowia_36_0227-0239.pdf}}

{{cite web |title=GSD Species Synonymy: Lentinula lateritia (Berk.) Pegler |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/GSD/GSDspecies.asp?RecordID=115275 |publisher=CAB International |accessdate=2015-03-09}}

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