Directory of Xylariaceae Resources

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Family of fungi in the order Xylariales.

Resources in This Category

• Daldinia concentrica

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2004.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this black spherical fungus, commonly known as King Alfred’s cake, coal fungus, coal balls or cramp balls.

• Poronia punctata

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/poronia.html
  Photograph of this species seen growing here on horse dung.

• Pyrenomycetes from Southwestern France

  http://pyrenomycetes.free.fr/
  Descriptions, identification keys, and photographs of Hypoxylon species (Pyrenomycetes: Xylariaceae) in France.

• Trunk Rot

  http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1415020
  Photograph of fruiting bodies of Ustulina deusta on the trunk of a beech tree.

• Ustulina deusta

  http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Ustulina_deusta.htm
  Several photographs and a description of this fungus and its habitat, in Polish and English.

• Xylaria

  http://www.pilzepilze.de/galerie/v/Lateinisch/X/xylaria/
  Photographs of Xylaria hypoxylon and the clublike Xylaria polymorpha.

• Xylaria polymorpha

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/apr2000.html
  Article by Tom Volk on Dead Man’s Fingers with several interesting photographs of this aptly named species.

• Xylariaceae

  http://mycology.sinica.edu.tw/Xylariaceae/
  Keys and images of fourteen genera in the family Xylariaceae.

 

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