BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Hypoxylon Bull., 1791 (woodwart fungi)
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypoxylon | Fruitbody | 6 October 2002 | North Wiltshire | England | 7 | 4 | 8 |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr., 1849 (a woodwart) | 1 | 6 | |||
| Species | Hypoxylon fragiforme (Scop.) J. Kickx f., 1835 (Beech Woodwart) | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | |
| Species | Hypoxylon fuscum (Pers.) Fr., 1849 (Hazel Woodwart) | 5 | 6 | 9 | 13 | |
| Species | Hypoxylon howeanum Peck, 1872 (a stromatic pyrenomycete) | 1 | 20 | |||
| Species | Hypoxylon intermedium (Schwein.) Y.M. Ju & J.D. Rogers, 1996 (a stromatic pyrenomycete) | 1 | ||||
| Species | Hypoxylon multiforme (Fr.) Fr., 1849 (Birch Woodwart) | 1 | 44 | |||
| Species | Hypoxylon rutilum Tul. & C. Tul., 1863 (a stromatic pyrenomycete) | 4 | ||||
| Informal | (Hypoxylon rubiginosum agg.) (Pers.) Fr., 1849 (Rusty Woodwarts) | 1 | 20 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Whalley, A.J.S., 1977 | Key to the British Species of Hypoxylon |
General Works
| Henrici, A., 2005 (Nodulosporium states) | Notes and Records (Oct 2005) |
Hypoxylon may also be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
ASCOMYCOTA (spore-shooters) |
ASCOMYCETES (spore shooters) |
XYLARIACEAE (a family of stromatic pyrenomycetes) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Hypoxylon:
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is parasitised by perithecium | Nectria episphaeria - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Nectriaceae) | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | ||
| stroma | stroma is parasitised by pycnidium of Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph | Coniothyrium parasitans - a coelomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 |
Hypoxylon may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
ASCOMYCETES (spore shooters) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook |
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook |
