Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill 1908

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gloeophyllum trabeum is saprobic on indoor structural timber of Pinopsida

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gloeophyllum trabeum is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Taxus baccata

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gloeophyllum trabeum is saprobic on dead, decayed wood of Pinus

Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill
Agaricus trabeus Pers. Syn. Fung. xxix. 1801. Daedalea trabea Fries, Syst. Myc. 1 : 335. 1821. Lenzites trabea Fries, Bpicr. Myc. 406. 1838.
Lenzites vialis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 67. 1874'. (Type from New York, on railroad ties.) Sesia pallidofulva Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 605. 1904. Gloeophyllum pallidofulvum Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 370. 1905.
Pileus corky, rather soft, dimidiate, sessile, laterally connate, plane or convex above, nearly plane below, 2X4-8X0.5-1 cm.; surface aiioderm, tomentose, smooth or slightly tubercular, usually azonate, opaque, isabelline when fresh, becoming avellaneous to umbrinous and finally fuliginous behind, changing immediately to ferruginous or fulvous when bruised ; margin very thin, nearly entire, ochroleucous : context soft, punky, homogeneous, dull-umbrinous, 1-3 mm. thick ; tubes annual, 2-4 mm. long, ochroleucous to isabelline within, mouths irregular, daedaleoid or radially elongate, averaging 0.5 mm. in width, edges uneven, isabelline to grayish-umbrinous or fulvous, the transverse walls often splitting with age and giving the hymenium a lamelloid appearance : spores cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, 9-12X3^//. Type locality : Frankfurt, Germany.
Habitat : Dead deciduous and coniferous wood, structural timber m particular.
Distribution : Temperate regions of North America and Europe.

Gloeophyllum trabeum is a species of fungus in the family Gloeophyllaceae.

Culture of Gloeophyllum trabeum mycelium