🍄 Family

Xylariaceae

6 species · Fungi

Fungi › Ascomycota › Sordariomycetes › Xylariales › Xylariaceae

Xylaria hypoxylon is a fungus that grows on decaying hardwood, with antler-shaped fruit bodies, and can cause root rot in hawthorn and gooseberry.

Xylaria polymorpha is an inedible ascomycete fungus that grows on decaying wood across all six inhabited continents.

Xylaria longipes is an inedible saprotrophic fungus found across Europe, Asia, and North America that grows on dead hardwood.

Kretzschmaria deusta is a fungus that causes rot in hardwood trees, is not edible, and changes appearance as it ages.

Rosellinia subiculata is an Ascomycota fungal pathogen of citrus identifiable by its growth pattern, singular ostiole, and yellow subiculum.

Cryptostroma corticale is a fungus that causes maple sooty bark disease and produces allergenic spores harmful to humans.

Related Families

Graphostromataceae 4 species Hypoxylaceae 4 species Diatrypaceae 3 species

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