Family Xylariaceae
[not just dead man's fingers]
Xylariaceae is a large and diverse family. Many are saprobes. Some are endophytes or can cause plant disease.
Daranagama et al. (2017) list 37 genera for the family, including Striatodecospora. Wijayawardene et al. list the 44 genera below but put Striatodecospora with Xylariales genera incertae sedis. Three genera are recorded in the Chicago Region.
- Abieticola
- Amphirosellinia
- Anthostomella
- Anthostomelloides
- Apioclypea
- Ascotricha
- Astrocystis
- Beltraniopsis
- Brunneiapiospora
- Brunneiperidium
- Clypeosphaeria
- Collodiscula
- Coniolariella
- Crassoascus
- Emarcea
- Engleromyces
- Entalbostroma
- Entoleuca
- Euepixylon
- Gigantospora
- Halorosellinia
- Helicogermslita
- Hypocopra
- Hypocreodendron
- Kretzschmaria (K. deusta, previously Ustulina deusta)
- Kretzschmariella
- Leprieuria
- Lunatiannulus
- Nemania
- Nipicola
- Palmaria
- Podosordaria
- Poronia
- Rosellinia (historic Chicago records: R. aquila, R. glandiformis, R. subiculata)
- Sabalicola
- Sarcoxylon
- Spirodecospora
- Squamotubera
- Stilbohypoxylon
- Vamsapriya
- Virgaria
- Wawelia
- Xylaria (X. acuta, X. cornu-damae, X. longiana, X. longipes, X. polymorpha, Xylocoremium flabelliforme)
- Xylotumulus
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Xylariaceae , Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, Tomus Secundus. Xylariei - Valsei - Sphaeriei 2: 3 (1863). Emended by M. Stadler & L. Wendt in Wendt et al. (2017). Type: Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, Baierische Flora 1: 200 (1789).
- Taxonomy
- Wendt et al. (2018) split the Hypoxylaceae back out of the Xylariaceae. The two families differ in their asexual morphs (anamorphs). In the Chicago Region we have Xylocoremium flabelliforme, which is the anamorph of Xylaria cubensis. Some of these anamorph genus names may be used if the polyphyletic Xylaria is split into multiple genera (Daranagama et al. 2017, Stadler et al. 2013).
- Description links
- Discover Life: Xylariaceae. Synoptic picture key. Must be a work in progress since there are only 25 species included.
- Rogers, Jack D., Yu-Ming Ju, Michael J. Adams. Xylariaceae Website. Keys and descriptions (technical).
- Related links
- Daranagama, D. A., K. D. Hyde, E. B. Sir, K. M. Thambugala, Q. Tian, M. C. Samarakoon, E. H. C. McKenzie, S. C. Jayasiri, S. Tibpromma, J. D. Bhat, X-Z. Liu, M. Stadler. 2017. Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Graphostromataceae, Hypoxylaceae, Lopadostomataceae and Xylariaceae Fungal Diversity 88(1): 1–165. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-017-0388-y
- Hsieh, H.-M., C.-R. Lin, M.-J. Fang, J. D. Rogers, J. Fournier, C. Lechat, Y.-M. Ju. 2010. Phylogenetic status of Xylaria subgenus Pseudoxylaria among taxa of the subfamily Xylarioideae (Xylariaceae) and phylogeny of the taxa involved in the subfamily. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(3): 957–969. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.015
- Stadler, M., E. Kuhnert, D. Peršoh, J. Fournier. 2013.
The Xylariaceae as model example for a unified nomenclature following the
One Fungus-One Name
(1F1N) concept. Mycology 4(1): 5-21. DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2013.782478 - Wendt, L., E. B. Sir, E. Kuhnert, S. Heitkämper, C. Lambert, A. I. Hladki, A. I. Romero, J. J. Luangsa-Ard, P. Srikitikulchai, D. Peršoh, M. Stadler. 2018. Resurrection and emendation of the Hypoxylaceae, recognised from a multigene phylogeny of the Xylariales. Mycological Progress 17(1-2): 115–154. DOI: 10.1007/s11557-017-1311-3
- Wijayawardene, N. N., K. D. Hyde, H. T. Lumbsch, J. K. Liu, S. S. N. Maharachchikumbura, A. H. Ekanayaka, Q. Tian, R. Phookamsak. 2018. Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88(1): 167–263. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-018-0394-8
- Taxon links
- 81528 Xylariaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum