- Veluticeps
Taxobox | name = "Veluticeps"
regnum =Fungi
subregnum =Dikarya
phylum =Basidiomycota
subphylum =Agaricomycotina
classis =Agaricomycetes
ordo =Gloeophyllales
familia =Gloeophyllaceae
genus = "Veluticeps"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "V. berkeleyi"Veluticeps is a small genus of wood-rot fungi characterized by the production of resupinate to bracket shaped, perennial, tough, brown fruitbodies, that blacken when KOH solution is applied, and with a smooth to warted or cracked fertile undersurface. They cause a brown rot of wood [cite journal | author=Gilbertson, R.L. et al.|year=1968| title=Veluticeps berkeleyi and its decay of pine in North America| journal=Mycologia| volume=60| pages=29–41| doi=10.2307/3757311] . [http://oldpage.tfri.gov.tw/book/sp98/sp98i416.htm] Cystidia in the
hymenium are characteristically mostly in fascicles. The genus may be monotypic if "Columnocystis " is excludedcite 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] [cite journal | author=Nakasone. K.K.|year=2004| title=Morphological studies in Veluticeps, Pileodon, and related taxa| journal=Sydowia| volume=56| pages=258–280] . Phylogenetically, the type species, "V. berkeleyi", groups with several other brown rot genera such asNeolentinus ,Heliocybe , andGloeophyllum .Etymology The name Veltuiceps was an elevation of the former species epithet "veluticeps" for the type species which was renamed, "V. berkeleyi".
Tautonym s, such as "Veluticeps veluticeps" would be illegitimate under theInternational Code of Botanical Nomenclature . The name combines "velutum" or "velutinus", meaning velvelty with "-ceps" meaning head, combined to mean velvety head, a reference to its velvety hymenium, rather than the actual upper surface (when it actually has a reflexed or bracket shape, which it does not always have).References
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