Gloeophyllum
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| Gloeophyllum | |
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| Fruiting bodies of the rusty gilled polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Gloeophyllales |
| Family: | Gloeophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Gloeophyllum P. Karst. (1882) |
| Type species | |
| Gloeophyllum sepiarium (Wulfen) P. Karst. (1882) (as Gleophyllum) | |
| Species | |
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G. abietinum | |
Gloeophyllum is a genus of fungus in the class Agaricomycetes. It is 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 hymenial surfaces. 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][6]
The most frequently encountered species in the Northern Hemisphere is Gloeophyllum sepiarium,[7] 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.[citation needed]