Boreostereum

Boreostereum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Gloeophyllales
Family:
Gloeophyllaceae
Genus:
Boreostereum

Parmasto (1968)
Type species
Boreostereum radiatum
(Peck) Parmasto (1968)
Species

B. borbonicum
B. radiatum
B. sulphuratum
B. vibrans

Boreostereum is a genus of corticioid fungi. The genus was circumscribed in 1968 by Erast Parmasto to contain the type species, which was formerly known as Stereum radiatum.[1] Boreostereum has four species that are widely distributed in northern temperate areas.[2] Species in the genus have a dimitic hyphal system, and the hyphae have with brown encrustations that turn greenish when potassium hydroxide is applied.[3] Boreosterum vibrans produces vibralactones, chemical metabolites that inhibit various enzymes.[4][5] Recent phylogenetic research indicates that Boreostereum is a sister group to the rest of the Gloeophyllales.[6]

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