Xylaria culleniae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Xylariales |
Family: | Xylariaceae |
Genus: | Xylaria |
Species: | X. culleniae
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Binomial name | |
Xylaria culleniae Berk. & Broome, 1873
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Xylaria culleniae is a species of fungus in the family Xylariaceae. This species known to grow on dried fruits and seeds.
Xylaria culleniae belongs to the family Xylariaceae. [1] [2] The species grows on fruits [3] and seeds are generally considered as host-specific. This species was collected from Sri Lanka during July 1868 [4] by George Gardner (botanist) and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites [5] who was superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon. The specimens were sent for identification to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [6] in 1872. [4] There English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome described this species in 1873. [4]
This species is reported from Sri Lanka, [4] [3] China, [7] Thailand [8] [9] [10] and Anaimalai Hills Southern Western Ghats, India. [11] This species is also known to occur in Central America, South America and Africa. [12]
The fruit bodies are erect, elongated black branches, whitened from midway to tips. The hairs of stem is septate. [4] The ascospores (fruit bodies) of X. culleniae relatively smaller and the stromata are generally less robust. Spore dimensions are 8.5-9.5 X 3.5-4.5 μm. [12] Sporidia .016 X .005 - .006 mm. [13] Color of the spores are brown and are ellipsoid or inequilateral in shape. Germ slit is straight and long. Length of stroma is up to 7 cm. [12] Stromata unbranched or branched, cylindrical, long conical. Texture soft. Perithecia 0.1-0.3 mm diam. Ostioles minutely papillate. [10]
X. culleniae are recorded growing on Cullenia exarillata pods [14] hence the species name culleniae. It is assumed to be host-specific, however it has been recorded growing on and Inga sp. fruits [12] which is a Legume. Hence their host specificity is uncertain. [15]
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Xylaria culleniae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Xylariales |
Family: | Xylariaceae |
Genus: | Xylaria |
Species: | X. culleniae
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Binomial name | |
Xylaria culleniae Berk. & Broome, 1873
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Xylaria culleniae is a species of fungus in the family Xylariaceae. This species known to grow on dried fruits and seeds.
Xylaria culleniae belongs to the family Xylariaceae. [1] [2] The species grows on fruits [3] and seeds are generally considered as host-specific. This species was collected from Sri Lanka during July 1868 [4] by George Gardner (botanist) and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites [5] who was superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon. The specimens were sent for identification to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [6] in 1872. [4] There English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome described this species in 1873. [4]
This species is reported from Sri Lanka, [4] [3] China, [7] Thailand [8] [9] [10] and Anaimalai Hills Southern Western Ghats, India. [11] This species is also known to occur in Central America, South America and Africa. [12]
The fruit bodies are erect, elongated black branches, whitened from midway to tips. The hairs of stem is septate. [4] The ascospores (fruit bodies) of X. culleniae relatively smaller and the stromata are generally less robust. Spore dimensions are 8.5-9.5 X 3.5-4.5 μm. [12] Sporidia .016 X .005 - .006 mm. [13] Color of the spores are brown and are ellipsoid or inequilateral in shape. Germ slit is straight and long. Length of stroma is up to 7 cm. [12] Stromata unbranched or branched, cylindrical, long conical. Texture soft. Perithecia 0.1-0.3 mm diam. Ostioles minutely papillate. [10]
X. culleniae are recorded growing on Cullenia exarillata pods [14] hence the species name culleniae. It is assumed to be host-specific, however it has been recorded growing on and Inga sp. fruits [12] which is a Legume. Hence their host specificity is uncertain. [15]
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