Gloeophyllum

Taxobox | name = "Gloeophyllum"

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image_caption = Fruiting bodies of the rusty gilled polypore ("Gloeophyllum sepiarium")
regnum = Fungi
subregnum = Dikarya
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Agaricomycotina
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Gloeophyllales
familia = Gloeophyllaceae
genus = "Gloeophyllum"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "G. abietinum"
"G. carbonarium"
"G. mexicanum"
"G. odoratum"
"G. protractum"
"G. sepiarium"
"G. striatum"
"G. trabeum"

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 [cite journal | author=Gilbertson, R.L.|year=1981| title=North American wood-rotting fungi that cause brown rots| journal=Mycotaxon| volume=12| pages=372–416] [cite journal | author=Hibbett, D.S. & Donoghue, M.J.|year=2001| title=Analysis of character correlations among wood decay mechanisms, mating systems, and substrate ranges in Homobasidiomycetes|journal=Syst. Biol.| volume=50| pages=215–242| doi=10.1080/10635150151125879] . Phylogenetically, it along with several other brown rot Basidiomycota, "Neolentinus", "Heliocybe", and "Veluticeps" form an order called the Gloeophyllales [cite journal | author=Hibbett, D.S. et al.|year=2007| title=A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi| journal=Mycol. Res.| volume=111| pages=509–547| doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004] cite journal | author=Hibbett, D.S. & Binder, M.|year=2002| title=Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes|journal=Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B| volume=269| pages=1963–1969| doi=10.1098/rspb.2002.2123] cite journal | author=Binder, M. et al.|year=2005| title=The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)|journal=Syst. Biodivers.| volume=3| pages=113–157| doi=10.1017/S1477200005001623] .

The most frequently encountered species in the Northern Hemisphere is "Gloeophyllum sepiarium" [http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISC2004/gloeophy.htm] , 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.

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.

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