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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Ganodermataceae |
| Genus: | Ganoderma |
| Species: | G. sichuanense
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| Binomial name | |
| Ganoderma sichuanense J.D. Zhao & X.Q. Zhang (1983)[1]
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| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Ganoderma lingzhi Sheng H. Wu, Y. Cao & Y.C. Dai (2012) | |
Lingzhi | |
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 | Pores on hymenium |
 | Cap is offset or indistinct |
 | Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable |
| Stipe is bare or lacks a stipe |
 | Spore print is brown |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic or parasitic |
 | Edibility is edible, but unpalatable |
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| Traditional Chinese | 靈芝 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 灵芝 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lingzhi, Ganoderma sichuanense, also known as reishi or Ganoderma lingzhi[3] is a polypore fungus ("bracket fungus") native to East Asia belonging to the genus Ganoderma.
Its reddish brown, varnished, kidney-shaped cap with bands and peripherally inserted stem give it a distinct fan-like appearance. When fresh, the lingzhi is soft, cork-like, and flat. It lacks gills on its underside, and instead releases its spores via fine pores (80–120 μm) in yellow colors.[2]
In nature, it grows at the base and stumps of deciduous trees, especially maples. Only two or three out of 10,000 such trees will have lingzhi growth, and therefore its wild form is rare.[citation needed] Lingzhi may be cultivated on hardwood logs, sawdust, or woodchips.
The lingzhi mushroom is used in traditional Chinese medicine.[2][4] There is insufficient evidence to indicate that consuming Ganoderma mushrooms in any form has any effect on human health or diseases.[5][6][7]
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- ^ a b Du, Zhuo; Li, Yi; Wang, Xin-Cun; Wang, Ke; Yao, Yi-Jian (2023). "Re-Examination of the Holotype of Ganoderma sichuanense (Ganodermataceae, Polyporales) and a Clarification of the Identity of Chinese Cultivated Lingzhi". Journal of Fungi. 9 (3): 323. doi:10.3390/jof9030323. ISSN 2309-608X. PMC 10051598. PMID 36983491.
- ^ Kenneth, Jones (1990). Reishi: Ancient Herb for Modern Times. Sylvan Press. p. 6.
- ^ "Reishi mushroom". Drugs.com. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ Jin, Xingzhong; Ruiz Beguerie, Julieta; Sze, Daniel Man-yuen; Chan, Godfrey C.F. (2015). "Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi mushroom) for cancer treatment". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 4 (4): CD007731. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007731.pub3. PMC 6353236. PMID 27045603.
- ^ Klupp, Nerida L.; Chang, Dennis; Hawke, Fiona; Kiat, Hosen; Cao, Huijuan; Grant, Suzanne J.; Bensoussan, Alan (2015). "Ganoderma lucidum mushroom for the treatment of cardiovascular risk factors". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2021 (2): CD007259. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007259.pub2. PMC 6486141. PMID 25686270.