Veluticeps

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| taxon = Veluticeps

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| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = V. berkeleyi

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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.|year=1968| title=Veluticeps berkeleyi and its decay of pine in North America| journal=Mycologia| volume=60| pages=29–41| doi=10.2307/3757311 | issue=1 | jstor=3757311|display-authors=etal}}[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 excluded.{{cite journal | author=Binder, M.|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 | issue=2|bibcode=2005SyBio...3..113B |display-authors=etal}}{{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 as Neolentinus, Heliocybe, and Gloeophyllum.{{cite journal | author=García-Sandoval R | author2=Wang Z | author3=Binder M. | author4=Hibbett DS | name-list-style=amp|year=2011| title=Molecular phylogenetics of the Gloeophyllales and relative ages of clades of Agaricomycotina producing a brown rot|journal=Mycologia| volume=103| pages=510–524| doi=10.3852/10-209 | pmid=21186327 | issue=3 }}