Lentinula boryana

What the mushroom is

Lentinula boryana is a wood-decay mushroom of the genus Lentinula, the genus that includes the shiitake, Lentinula edodes. The catalogue describes it as an American shiitake relative and records it from Brazil. The catalogue treats the name as a research label that has not been validated against the current taxonomic authorities.

The species grows on wood in the Atlantic rainforest. The catalogue gives its ecology as wood in the Atlantic rainforest, and its supply as unknown.

Brazilian wild edible mushrooms

A 2024 survey of Brazilian wild edible mushrooms, published in IMA Fungus, recorded 409 species. Of these, 350 were classed as safely consumable and 59 as edible with conditions. A further 150 species have unclear evidence of consumption or unconfirmed edibility, and 323 names need taxonomic work before their occurrence in Brazil is confirmed. The survey treats the category of each species on the basis of its records, and the category of Lentinula boryana in it was not confirmed in the text read here.

Food use and safety

The catalogue records the species as a neotropical edible wood fungus, under food, market or specialist evidence. That record does not establish a standardized food-safety assessment. Inclusion in the catalogue does not establish identity, edibility or a safe preparation, and this page gives no edibility verdict. No preparation method is stated, because the sources read do not give one for this species.

Open questions

The catalogue gives the supply as unknown, and the sources read do not say how the species is gathered, sold or grown. The species-level category in the Brazilian survey needs checking against its full table, and molecular identification of Brazilian records would settle the name.