The Gloeophyllales are a

phylogenetically In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

defined order of wood-decay fungi that is characterized by the ability to produce a brown rot of wood. * * * * It includes a single, identically defined

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, the Gloeophyllaceae, in which are included the genera ''

Gloeophyllum The genus ''Gloeophyllum'' 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 di ...

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Neolentinus ''Neolentinus'' is a genus of wood-decaying agarics with tough (leathery to woody) fruit bodies composed of dimitic tissue, serrated lamella edges, and nonamyloid white binucleate basidiospores among other features. It was segregated from ''L ...

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Heliocybe Heliocybe is an agaric genus closely allied to ''Neolentinus'' and the bracket fungus, ''Gloeophyllum'', all of which cause brown rot of wood. ''Heliocybe sulcata'', the type and sole species, is characterized by thumb-sized, tough, revivable, of ...

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Veluticeps ''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 und ...

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Basidiomycota orders Monotypic fungus taxa {{Agaricomycetes-stub