Lentinus crinitus

General: Lignicolous tropical species, pileus densely hirsute with a depressed center, lamellae decurrent, stipe adorned with numerous dark scales particularly in the lower two-thirds.

Pileipellis: Hairy surface formed by parallel fascicles of very thick-walled hyphae containing abundant brown intracellular pigment; subpellis of more hyaline hyphae, 3-7 µm wide, septate with clamp connections.

Lamellar edge: Lacking true cystidia, but bearing sterile hyphal fascicles that form short, hyaline, pointed pegs (hyphal pegs).

Basidia: Cylindric-clavate, 22-28 x 4-6 µm, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores: Cylindrical, some slightly allantoid, flattened on the adaxial side, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.