V. berkeleyi 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.
[1][1] Cystidia in the hymenium are characteristically mostly in fascicles.
The genus may be monotypic if Columnocystis is excluded.
[2][3] Phylogenetically, the type species, V. berkeleyi, groups with several other brown rot genera such as Neolentinus, Heliocybe, and Gloeophyllum.
The name combines velutum or velutinus, meaning "velvety" with -ceps 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).