Neolentinus's a wood decaying genus of agarics with tough (leathery to woody) fruitbodies composed of dimitic tissue, serrated lamella edges, and nonamyloid white binucleate basidiospores among other features. It was segregated from Lentinus in the broad taxonomic sense; hence the derivation of the name. Biologically Neolentinus species produce a brown rot type of decay of wood, whereas Lentinus causes a white rot. Molecular base phylogenetic analysis shows that the two genera are unrelated. Ne… (More on Neolentinus)