New shiitake L. platinedodes and L. lateritia in South of Vietnam-Tropical speciation of Lentinula edodes-revised and cultivated data

Lentinula platinedodes, sp nov. with novel morphological and molecular characters, and particularly ITS sequences have comparatively analyzed to determine a new clade between the New and Old World Shiitake populations of Lentinula spp. as resulted from intercontinental dispersals of Lentinula edodes and segregations of taxa, and Lentinula lateritia as one of the secondary speciations.

The comparative data and cultivational experiments of these taxa have been undergoing and their ontogenesis in cultivations are investigated to show the primitive forms of Lentinula edodes, more or less fibrilose and pigmented as well as from which the tropical forms and speciations of Lentinula edodes with glabrous pilei and somewhat slender stipes deprived.