Stiptophyllum is a fungal genus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Stiptophyllum erubescens. The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden in 1973.[2] Stiptophyllum erubescens is found in tropical South America and causes brown rot of wood. Its fruit body has a stipe, which distinguishes it from the similar genus Gloeophyllum.[3]
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| Genus: | Stiptophyllum Ryvarden (1973)
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- ^ Berkeley, M.J. (1840). "Notice of some fungi collected by C. Darwin, Esq., during the expedition of H.M. Ship Beagle". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4): 291–293.
- ^ Ryvarden, L. (1973). "New genera in the Polyporaceae". Norwegian Journal of Botany. 20 (1): 1–5.
- ^ Campos-Santana, Marisa de; Loguercio-Leite, Clarice (2008). "A note on Stiptophyllum erubescens". Mycotaxon. 106: 127–132.
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