Family Gloeophyllaceae
[various brown rot fungi]
This Family contains a surprising selection of species with different growth forms: crusts, polypores, and gilled mushrooms. The four species known for the Chicago Region are listed below; all of them are rare here.
- Boreostereum
- Chaetodermella
- Gloeophyllum (G. sepiarium, G. trabeum)
- Heliocybe (H. sulcata)
- Neolentinus (N. lepideus)
- Osmoporus
- Veluticeps
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Gloeophyllaceae , Biblthca Mycol. 85: 368 (1982). Type: Gloeophyllum P. Karst. 1882.
- Taxonomy
- Gloeophyllum is composed of two groups, one of which may become an expanded concept of the genus Osmoporus (Gloeophyllum odoratum).
- Description links
- Wikipedia
- Related links
- Garcia-Sandoval R., Z. Wang, M. Binder, D. S. Hibbett. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics of the Gloeophyllales and relative ages of clades of Agaricomycotina producing a brown rot. Mycologia 103(3): 510-524. DOI: 10.3852/10-209 [PDF listed under 2010 at Hibbett Lab Publications.]
- Hibbett, D. S., R. Bauer, M. Binder, A.J. Giachini, K. Hosaka, A. Justo, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, J.D. Lawrey, O. Miettinen, L. Nagy, R.H. Nilsson, M. Weiss, R.G. Thorn. 2014. Agaricomycetes. Pp. 373–429 In: Systematics and Evolution, Second Edition, The Mycota VII Part A. (D. J. McLaughlin and J. W. Spatafora, Eds.), Springer Verlag. [Chapter 14 and complete volume PDF at Hibbett Lab Publications.]
- Taxon links
- 81777 Gloeophyllaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum