Gloeophyllum
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 Fruiting bodies of the rusty gilled polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)
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G. abietinum |
Gloeophyllum genus characterized by the production of leathery to corky tough, brown, shaggy-topped, revivable fruitbodies lacking a stipe and with a lamellate to daedaleoid or poroid fertile under surface. The hyphal system is dimitic to trimitic. The genus is further characterized by the production of a brown rot of wood[1][2]. Phylogenetically, it along with several other brown rot Basidiomycota, Neolentinus, Heliocybe, and Veluticeps form an order called the Gloeophyllales[3][4][5].
The most frequently encountered species in the Northern Hemisphere is Gloeophyllum sepiarium[1], which is commonly found in a dried state on both bark-covered and decorticated conifer stumps and logs, timbers on wharfs, planks on unpainted wooden buildings, wood bridges, and even creosoted railroad ties.
[edit] Etymology
The name Gloeophyllum combines "gloeo-" a reference to anything sticky, and "-phyllum", a reference to the lamellae. It is probably a combined reference to the fact the lamellae in the type species, G. sepiarium, and other original species, appeared to be stuck together forming anastomosing bridges, to the point of forming a daedaleoid pattern. There is nothing sticky about the actual fungal fruitbodies. The name was originally spelled Gleophyllum but was soon changed and the current spelling is sanctioned.
[edit] References
- ^ Gilbertson, R.L. (1981). "North American wood-rotting fungi that cause brown rots". Mycotaxon 12: 372–416.
- ^ Hibbett, D.S. & Donoghue, M.J. (2001). "Analysis of character correlations among wood decay mechanisms, mating systems, and substrate ranges in Homobasidiomycetes". Syst. Biol. 50: 215–242. doi:.
- ^ Hibbett, D.S. et al. (2007). "A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycol. Res. 111: 509–547. doi:.
- ^ Hibbett, D.S. & Binder, M. (2002). "Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269: 1963–1969. doi:.
- ^ Binder, M. et al. (2005). "The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)". Syst. Biodivers. 3: 113–157. doi:.
