N. adhaerens N. cirrhosus N. cyathiformis[1] N. dactyloides N. kauffmanii N. lepideus N. pallidus N. papuanus N. ponderosus N. schaefferi Neolentinus is a genus of wood-decaying agarics with tough (leathery to woody) fruit bodies composed of dimitic tissue, serrated lamella edges, and nonamyloid white binucleate basidiospores among other features.

[7][8] Heliocybe had been placed in synonymy but it differs phylogenetically and anatomically by the lack of clamp connections that all Neolentinus produce on their generative hyphae.

The best known species in this genus is Neolentinus lepideus, sometimes known as the "train wrecker", a name coined because the fungus is one of the few decay fungi that can grow on creosote-treated railroad ties.

Neolentinus dactyloides is a fire ecology species [1] that fruits from massive subterranean pseudosclerotia in Australia.

Lentinus is an older generic name historically applied to a broad group of agarics, and now restricted in application excluding Neolentinus.