The
University
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West
Indies
The Macro-Fungi of Barbados
Xylaria Hill ex Schrank species 2
Department
of
Biological
and
Chemical
Science
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Division/Phylum: Ascomycota Class: Ascomycetes Order: Xylariales Family: Xylariaceae Common Name: Unknown Habitat: Dry Gully and Woodland. Substrate: Dead wood. Description: Long, slender, uneven, flask fungus (Fig. 1). Club: 17-44 mm in height and 1.5-0.5 mm in diameter. Long thin bumpy sticklike. May be branched. Flesh white. Asexual stage has a white grayish cast over tip of the club and is smoother and narrower than the thicker sexual stage (Fig. 4). Spores: Black. Specimen: St. Michael; Layers Gully, (13o 09 04.3’ N, 59o 34 49.3’ W), Daniel-07-77, January-04-2007. University of the West Indies, Biology Woodland, (13o07.996N, 59o 37.904’ W).
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 Figure 1. Xylaria species two in situ. |
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