''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 woo

cystidium, Cystidia in the

hymenium The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in oth ...

are characteristically mostly in fascicles. The genus may be monotypic if '' Columnocystis'' is excluded. Phylogenetically, the type species, ''V. berkeleyi'', groups with several other brown rot genera such as

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 ...

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'' is the type and sole species. Description ''Heliocybe sulcata'' is character ...

, and

Gloeophyllum ''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 ...

Etymology

The name Veluticeps was an elevation of the former species epithet ''"veluticeps"'' for the type species which was renamed, ''V. berkeleyi''.

Tautonym A tautonym is a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, such as '' Rattus rattus''. The first part of the name is the name of the genus and the second part is referred to as the ''specific epithet'' i ...

s, such as ''"Veluticeps veluticeps"'' would be illegitimate under the

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature The ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN or ICNafp) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all tho ...

. The name combines ' or ', meaning "velvety" with ''-'' meaning "head", combined to mean "velvety head", a reference to its velvety hymenium, rather than the actual upper surface (when it actually has a reflexed or bracket shape, which it does not always have).

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7919361 Gloeophyllales Agaricomycetes genera