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In Latin and Greek Accidence, by John Perkins, I found the following examples of verbs that have a velar consonant only in non-present stems:

The Latin language; a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, by Charles E. Bennett (1907) says

but perhaps there are some issues with this evidence, or opposing pieces of evidence. Bennet doesn't indicate any inscriptional evidence (e.g. use of the apex) for vowel length in this word.

###Further reading

Some links to further literature that seems relevant that I found by Googling, but that I haven't processed yet:

• "Latin Verbs in -uo, -uere", Oswald Szemerényi, in Italic and Romance Linguistic Studies in Honor of Ernst Pulgram (1980). This seems pretty detailed! I can only see part of it through Google Books, but it looks worth a read.

• "On some Slavic words in -č: k from laryngeal?", by Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (1988)

• "Lachmann's Law (Part 2)", by Roman Sukač (2013)

• "On Latin strāgulum and strāges: -g- and analogy", by Kanehiro Nishimura, in Words and Dictionaries: A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occassion of his 85^th Birthday (2015)

In Perkins (1875) I found the following examples of verbs that have a velar consonant only in non-present stems:

Bennett (1907) says

but perhaps there are some issues with this evidence, or opposing pieces of evidence. Bennet doesn't indicate any inscriptional evidence (e.g. use of the apex) for vowel length in this word.

###Works cited

• Allen, W. Sidney. Vox Latina, Second Edition (First published 1965, Second edition 1978)

• Bennet, Charles E. The Latin language; a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax (1907)

• Perkins, John. Latin and Greek Accidence (1875)

• Szemerényi, Oswald. "Latin Verbs in -uo, -uere", in Italic and Romance Linguistic Studies in Honor of Ernst Pulgram (1980). This seems pretty detailed! I can only see part of it through Google Books, but it looks worth a read.

###Further reading

Some links to further literature that seems relevant that I found by Googling, but that I haven't processed yet:

• "On some Slavic words in -č: k from laryngeal?", by Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (1988)

• "Lachmann's Law (Part 2)", by Roman Sukač (2013)

• "On Latin strāgulum and strāges: -g- and analogy", by Kanehiro Nishimura, in Words and Dictionaries: A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occassion of his 85^th Birthday (2015)

Wiktionary (accessed 24 June 2017) gives the following etymologies:

"Latin Verbs in -uo, -uere", by Oswald Szemerényi, says

Two [of the verbs ending in -uo, -uere] show in the perfect and the PPP a velar stem:

fluo -ere fluxī fluctum (later fluxus)
struo -ere struxī structum.

No doubt ... the same type is seen in

fruor fruī frūctus

(p. 11)

Wiktionary (accessed 24 June 2017) gives the following etymologies:

As you might have noticed, Wikipedia, unlike Allen, doesn't write a macron on structum, and there is a note in the Wikipedia entry for struo saying:

As you might have noticed, Wiktionary, unlike Allen, doesn't write a macron on structum, and there is a note in the Wiktionary entry for struo saying: