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Tiger Milk Polypores
1 species
Lloyd ex Torrend 1920. Tropical polypores with a central stalk arising from an underground sclerotium, found in Africa and Asia. It includes the medicinal tiger milk mushroom, L. rhinocerotis.
Fruit body: annual, centrally stalked, arising from a buried, tuber-like sclerotium. Hyphal system: trimitic with clamped generative hyphae. Spores: smooth, hyaline.
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