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Lentinus tuber-regium (Fr.) Fr. (also widely treated as Pleurotus tuber-regium (Rumph. ex Fr.) Singer) is a tropical wood decomposer that forms large, hard underground sclerotia as well as funnel-shaped mushrooms. Both the sclerotium and fruit bodies are eaten and used medicinally in West Africa and Southeast Asia. Sclerotia can be stored and later induced to fruit.
Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia.
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