A historical specimen of False Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) resolves a 245-year-old confusion within an important medicinal mushroom group
Torda Varga, Spike RJ Parker, Alessandro A. Agorini, Alexandra Dombrowski, Lewis Hadfield, A. Martyn Ainsworth, David L. Hawksworth, Masoomeh Ghobad‐Nejhad, Viktor Papp
The paper resolves a 245-year-old taxonomic confusion between Ganoderma lingzhi and G. lucidum using a historical specimen and genomic analysis, showing they diverged over 12 million years ago.
Plants People Planet · Oct 26, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology