Lentinula edodes

species of fungus
Taxon taxon Q320999
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Summary

Lentinula edodes is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.51% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,030 views/month, #1,002 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: cultivated mushroom[3]
  • Taxon rank: species[4]
  • Parent taxon: Lentinula[5]
  • Taxon name: Lentinula edodes[6]
  • Subclass of: edible mushroom[7]
  • Commons category: Lentinula edodes[8]
  • Has basionym: Agaricus edodes[9]
  • Hymenium type: lamella[10]
  • Mushroom cap shape: convex mushroom cap[11]
  • Hymenium attachment: free hymenium attachment[12]
  • Stipe character: bare stipe[13]
  • Spore print color: white[14]
  • Mushroom ecological type: saprobiont[15]
  • Edibility: choice mushroom[16], edible mushroom[17], medicinal mushrooms[18]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lentinula edodes[19]
  • Commons gallery: Lentinula edodes[20]
  • Taxon synonym: Agaricus edodes[21], Tricholoma shiitake[22], Collybia shiitake[23], Lentinus edodes[24], Lentinus mellianus[25], Lentinus shiitake[26], Lentinus tonkinensis[27]
  • This taxon is source of: shiitake mushroom[28]
  • Short name: L. edodes[29]
  • Taxon common name: 香菇[30], Shiitake[31], houževnatec jedlý[32], Shiitake-Pilz[33]
  • Different from: Shia Islam[34]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[35]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[36]
  • Taxon author citation: (Berk.) Pegler (1976)[37]

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Identifiers

Lentinula edodes's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 123351[38]. Lentinula edodes's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5353[39]. Lentinula edodes's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 192749[40]. Lentinula edodes's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2537743[41].

Why It Matters

Lentinula edodes has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 132 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [39] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Diversity of edible and medicinal fungi from National Park of Hainan Tropical Rainforest, China. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Diversity of edible and medicinal fungi from National Park of Hainan Tropical Rainforest, China. wikidata.org.
  18. [40] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [41] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [23] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [24] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [25] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [26] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [27] ↑ . Index Fungorum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [30] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [31] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [32] ↑ . Portál informačního systému ochrany přírody. Retrieved . portal.nature.cz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [33] ↑ . Datenbank der Pilze Deutschlands. Retrieved . pilze-deutschland.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [37] ↑ . Australian Fungi ID. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Shizhao · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → edible mushroom
    Taxon range → Hainan
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon range: Ailao Mountains"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 11819, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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