lentinus tigrinus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So heres a question, why is lentinus tigrinus in the polypores?

 

[armchairarborist]

man classifies everything into neat boxes, man gets it wrong sometimes (quite often actually)

[Johny Walker]

man classifies everything into neat boxes, man gets it wrong sometimes (quite often actually)

 

speak for your sen boy

[Fungus]

So heres a question, why is lentinus tigrinus in the polypores?

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Because genetic fingerprinting has shown that the genus Lentinus is closely related to the Polyporaceae and not related to the Agaricales.

Gerrit J. Keizer

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

is there anything different about the gills specifically or is it just genetics?

 

Ive found this twice now, once last year and last week, didnt realise it was so scarce as david mentioned no records at FRDBI since 09.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

and thank you for taking the time!

[David Humphries]

This has frustrated me also.

 

The problem I find here, is that unless you have a complete grasp of the history of nomenclature & clasification, then anomalies like this Lentinus (whether genetic or not) will always add confusion.

 

As we're not trained Mycologists Tony, these are hurdles (though relatively small in the grand scale of things) that we will just have to straddled when we come across them.

 

Guess this goes to strengthen the arguement that we need to concentrate on the physical atributes of Id spore colour/shape/size etc.....rather than blindly depend on the literature.

 

I know you know this.

 

 

All part of the journey

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

and thank you for taking the time!

 

also appreciate the input, thanks Fungus

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

is there anything different about the gills specifically or is it just genetics?

 

No, in this respect it's just genetics. Since genetic fingerprinting was introduced, the position of some species had to be drastically reviewed. They f.i. found out, that Coprinus comatus is not closely related to other Coprinus species and that even though all Paxillus species have gills, they are closely related to the Boletes. And what to think of the split gills of Schizophyllum commune, a species belonging to the Aphyllophorales ?

Gerrit J. Keizer

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

No, in this respect it's just genetics. Since genetic fingerprinting was introduced, the position of some species had to be drastically reviewed. They f.i. found out, that Coprinus comatus is not closely related to other Coprinus species and that even though all Paxillus species have gills, they are closely related to the Boletes. And what to think of the split gills of Schizophyllum commune, a species belonging to the Aphyllophorales ?

Gerrit J. Keizer

 

I have an image of a large split gilled species, it was never identified, im going to see if i can find it in the image archives and see what you think of it.

 

Good to know about the paxillus too, am I right i assuming that older texts are now pretty useless with all this dna testing about?