Lenzites elegans

Lenzites elegans, also known as Trametes elegans and Daedalea elegans, is a common polypore and wood-decay fungus with a pantropical distribution found on hardwood hosts in regions including eastern North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.[2][3]

Lenzites elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Phylum:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Basidiomycetes
Subclass:
Agaricomycetidae
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Polyporaceae
Genus:
Lenzites
Species:
L. elegans
Binomial name
Lenzites elegans
(Spreng.) Pat., (1900)[1]
Synonyms[1]
List
  • Daedalea elegans Spreng. (1820)
  • Trametes elegans (Spreng.) Fr. (1838)
  • Daedalea ambigua Berk. (1845)
  • Whitfordia elegans (Spreng.) Singer (1951)
  • Daedaleopsis elegans (Spreng.) Domanski (1974)
Lenzites elegans
pores on hymenium
cap is offset or indistinct
hymenium is decurrent
lacks a stipe
spore print is white
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: inedible

References
  1. Lenzites elegans in MycoBank.
  2. Farr, D.F.; Rossman, A.Y. "Trametes elegans". Fungal Databases, U.S. National Fungus Collections, ARS, USDA. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. Farr, D.F.; Rossman, A.Y. "Lenzites elegans". Fungal Databases, U.S. National Fungus Collections, ARS, USDA. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.


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