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Species of fungus
Xylaria culleniae is a species of fungus in the family
Xylariaceae . This species known to grow on dried fruits and seeds.
Taxonomy
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]
Distribution
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]
Description
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]
Hosts plants
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]
See also
Cullenia exarillata
References
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doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.010 .
PMID
26903035 .
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a
b Lloyd, C. G.; Stevenson, John A. (1920).
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"Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick (1812–1882) on JSTOR" . plants.jstor.org . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^ Karunarathna, Samantha C.; Mortimer, Peter E.; Xu, Jianchu; Hyde, Kevin D. (2017).
"Overview of Research of Mushrooms in Sri Lanka" . Revista Fitotecnia Mexicana . 40 (4): 399–403.
doi :
10.35196/rfm.2017.4.399-403 .
S2CID
134437435 . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^ Huang, Gu; Guo, Lin; Liu, Na (19 November 2014).
"Two new species of Xylaria and X. diminuta new to China" . Mycotaxon . 129 (1): 149–152.
doi :
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^ Pan, Xiao-Yan; Song, Zi-Kun; Qu, Zhi; Liu, Tie-Dong; Ma, Hai-Xia (1 December 2022).
"Three new Xylaria species (Xylariaceae, Xylariales) on fallen leaves from Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park" . MycoKeys . 86 : 47–63.
doi :
10.3897/mycokeys.86.71623 .
ISSN
1314-4049 .
PMC
8770429 .
PMID
35095304 .
S2CID
245925735 .
^ Hsieh, Huei-Mei; Lin, Chun-Ru; Fang, Mei-Jane; Rogers, Jack D.; Fournier, Jacques; Lechat, Christian; Ju, Yu-Ming (1 March 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 .
ISSN
1055-7903 .
PMID
20035889 . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^
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b Mekkamol S. 1998.
Endophytic fungi of Tectona grandis L (Teak) . PhD Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
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^
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b
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d Rogers, Jack D. (29 January 2011).
"Xylaria magnoliae sp.nov. and comments on several other fruit-inhabiting species" . Canadian Journal of Botany . 57 (8): 941–945.
doi :
10.1139/b79-115 . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^ Cooke, M.C. (1883).
On Xylaria and its allies . Grevillea. Volume XI. No. 59. Page. 83
^ Ma, Hai-Xia; Song, Zi-Kun; Pan, Xiao-Yan; Qu, Zhi; Ma, Si-Yu; Yang, Zhan-En; Zhang, Bo; Li, Yu (14 February 2022).
"Phylogeny and Taxonomic of Xylaria Associated With Fallen Fruits and Seeds in China" .
doi :
10.21203/rs.3.rs-1081502/v1 .
S2CID
244413071 . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^ Ju, Yu-Ming; Rogers, Jack D.; Hsieh, Huei-Mei (4 July 2018).
"Xylaria species associated with fallen fruits and seeds" . Mycologia . 110 (4): 726–749.
doi :
10.1080/00275514.2018.1469879 .
ISSN
0027-5514 .
PMID
30067469 .
S2CID
51895543 . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
External links
GBIF