Gloeophyllum

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Gloeophyllum.sepiarium.-.lindsey.jpg

| image_caption = Fruiting bodies of the rusty gilled polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)

| taxon = Gloeophyllum

| authority = P. Karst. (1882)

| type_species = Gloeophyllum sepiarium

| type_species_authority = (Wulfen) P. Karst. (1882) (as Gleophyllum)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

G. abietinum

G. carbonarium

G. concentricum

G. mexicanum

G. odoratum

G. protractum

G. sepiarium

G. striatum

G. trabeum

}}

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.{{cite journal |last1=Gilbertson |first1=Robert L. |year=1981 |title=North American wood-rotting fungi that cause brown rots |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=12 |pages=372–416 |oclc=21660849 }}{{cite journal |last1=Hibbett |first1=David S. |last2=Donoghue |first2=Michael J. |title=Analysis of Character Correlations Among Wood Decay Mechanisms, Mating Systems, and Substrate Ranges in Homobasidiomycetes |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=215–42 |year=2001 |pmid=12116929 |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-link42= Robert W. Lichtwardt |last1=Hibbett |first1=David S. |last2=Binder |first2=Manfred |last3=Bischoff |first3=Joseph F. |last4=Blackwell |first4=Meredith |last5=Cannon |first5=Paul F. |last6=Eriksson |first6=Ove E. |last7=Huhndorf |first7=Sabine |last8=James |first8=Timothy |last9=Kirk |first9=Paul M. |last10=Lücking |first10=Robert |last11=Thorsten Lumbsch |first11=H. |last12=Lutzoni |first12=François |last13=Matheny |first13=P. Brandon |last14=McLaughlin |first14=David J. |last15=Powell |first15=Martha J. |last16=Redhead |first16=Scott |last17=Schoch |first17=Conrad L. |last18=Spatafora |first18=Joseph W. |last19=Stalpers |first19=Joost A. |last20=Vilgalys |first20=Rytas |last21=Aime |first21=M. Catherine |last22=Aptroot |first22=André |last23=Bauer |first23=Robert |last24=Begerow |first24=Dominik |last25=Benny |first25=Gerald L. |last26=Castlebury |first26=Lisa A. |last27=Crous |first27=Pedro W. |last28=Dai |first28=Yu-Cheng |last29=Gams |first29=Walter |last30=Geiser |first30=David M. |last31=Griffith |first31=Gareth W. |last32=Gueidan |first32=Cécile |last33=Hawksworth |first33=David L. |last34=Hestmark |first34=Geir |last35=Hosaka |first35=Kentaro |last36=Humber |first36=Richard A. |last37=Hyde |first37=Kevin D. |last38=Ironside |first38=Joseph E. |last39=Kõljalg |first39=Urmas |last40=Kurtzman |first40=Cletus P. |last41=Larsson |first41=Karl-Henrik |last42=Lichtwardt |first42=Robert |last43=Longcore |first43=Joyce |last44=Miądlikowska |first44=Jolanta |last45=Miller |first45=Andrew |last46=Moncalvo |first46=Jean-Marc |last47=Mozley-Standridge |first47=Sharon |last48=Oberwinkler |first48=Franz |last49=Parmasto |first49=Erast |last50=Reeb |first50=Valérie |last51=Rogers |first51=Jack D. |last52=Roux |first52=Claude |last53=Ryvarden |first53=Leif |last54=Sampaio |first54=José Paulo |last55=Schüßler |first55=Arthur |last56=Sugiyama |first56=Junta |last57=Thorn |first57=R. Greg |last58=Tibell |first58=Leif |last59=Untereiner |first59=Wendy A. |last60=Walker |first60=Christopher |last61=Wang |first61=Zheng |last62=Weir |first62=Alex |last63=Weiss |first63=Michael |last64=White |first64=Merlin M. |last65=Winka |first65=Katarina |last66=Yao |first66=Yi-Jian |last67=Zhang |first67=Ning |title=A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi |journal=Mycological Research |volume=111 |issue=5 |pages=509–47 |year=2007 |pmid=17572334 |doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004 |citeseerx=10.1.1.626.9582 |s2cid=4686378 }}{{cite journal |last1=Hibbett |first1=D. S. |last2=Binder |first2=M. |title=Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=269 |issue=1504 |pages=1963–9 |year=2002 |pmid=12396494 |pmc=1691125 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2002.2123 }}{{cite journal |last1=Binder |first1=Manfred |last2=Hibbett |first2=David S. |last3=Larsson |first3=Karl-Henrik |last4=Larsson |first4=Ellen |last5=Langer |first5=Ewald |last6=Langer |first6=Gitta |title=The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes) |journal=Systematics and Biodiversity |volume=3 |issue=2 |year=2005 |pages=113–57 |doi=10.1017/S1477200005001623 |bibcode=2005SyBio...3..113B |s2cid=13102957 }}{{cite journal |last1=Garcia-Sandoval |first1=R. |last2=Wang |first2=Z. |last3=Binder |first3=M. |last4=Hibbett |first4=D. S. |title=Molecular phylogenetics of the Gloeophyllales and relative ages of clades of Agaricomycotina producing a brown rot |journal=Mycologia |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=510–24 |year=2011 |pmid=21186327 |doi=10.3852/10-209 |s2cid=9801943 }}

The most frequently encountered species in the Northern Hemisphere is Gloeophyllum sepiarium,{{Cite web |url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISC2004/gloeophy.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-12-04 |archive-date=2007-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031021148/http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISC2004/gloeophy.htm |url-status=dead }}{{full citation needed|date=May 2016}} 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|date=May 2016}}