Genus: Daedaleopsis

Daedaleopsis - genus of fungi of family Polyporaceae.

Etymology

Daedaleopsis, Daedaleopsis. From Daedalea, Daedalea (genus name) + όψις (opsis), appearance, look, spectacle.

Daedalea, Daedalea. From Δαίδαλος (Daidalos), Daedalus (builder of the Labyrinth) + eus, a, um, terminal element meaning possession of a trait.

Genus Daedaleopsis Schroet. includes fungi with annual, resupinate-reflexed basidiocarps. Hymenophore lamellar, tubular, hyphal
system trimitic, generative hyphae with clamp connections. Basidiospores cylindrical, colorless. All species of genus are xylotrophs causing white rot of deciduous wood, rarely coniferous.

Scope of genus Daedaleopsis currently under critical revision.

In Boreal region of Northern Hemisphere genus represented by three species: Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J. Schröt., D. septentrionalis (P. Karst.) Niemela, D. tricolor (Bull.) Bondartsev & Singer. In Europe and Russia all three species occur, while in North America only one - D. confragosa [Ibid.]. Accordingly D. confragosa has Holarctic distribution, while D. septentrionalis and D. tricolor have Eurasian distribution. Besides distribution they differ in morphological features of basidiocarps and trophic (substrate) preferences. 

Type species

Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J. Schröt., in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.1(25–32): 492 (1888) [1889]