Deconstructing Lentinus by David Hibbett

In 1983 the great British mycologist David Pegler wrote the first, and still only, world monograph of the genus Lentinus. The genus, in his view, included tough-textured mushrooms that usually have toothed gill margins, produce a white rot, and have "hyphal pegs", which are bundles of sterile hyphae that protrude from the gill faces. Usually. The one unifying character that held Pegler's genus concept together was possession of a dimitic hyphal system, with thick-walled skeletal or binding hyphae. Pegler's monograph was a work of great scholarship, done in the days before the advent of fungal molecular systematics. We now know that Lentinus sensu Pegler includes six independent genera, in three different orders. In this talk, I will describe the genera of "lentinoid" fungi and how we came to recognize that they are different.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

8 PM Eastern | 7 PM Central | 6 PM Mountain | 5 PM Pacific

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