Xylaria

Antler -shaped wooden club ( Xylaria hypoxylon )

The wooden clubs ( Xylaria ) are a genus of ascomycete of the subdivision Pezizomycotina.

Features

The wooden club species form upright, firm, club-shaped or coral-like branched and usually stalked stromata ( fruiting collection ), ie fruit body-like formations of the vegetative mycelium, in this the actual fruiting bodies, dunkelwandige perithecia are sunk. The stomata are against the development of fruiting bodies with white conidiospores, immature fruiting bodies are characterized dusted white, mature fruiting bodies are colored black. The asci contain eight spores, the ascospores are ellipsoid - fusiform to bean- shaped, black and have a white seed furrow.

Ecology

The wooden clubs are Saprobionten, most species inhabiting wood, some other plant residues, animal manure or soil.

Types (selection)

The genus contains about 100 species, most of which occur in the tropics worldwide. European types are:

• Book fruit peel wooden club ( Xylaria carpophila )
• Finger wooden club ( Xylaria digital )
• Filamentous wooden club ( Xylaria fiiliformis )
• Kleinsporige wooden club ( Xylaria guepini )
• Antler -shaped wooden club ( Xylaria hypoxylon )
• Long-stemmed maple lobe ( Xylaria longipes )
• Multiplex wooden club ( Xylaria multiplex )
• Hawthorn fruit wooden club ( Xylaria oxyacanthae )
• Multifarious wooden club ( Xylaria polymorpha )

Importance

The wooden clubs are used as edible mushrooms out of the question, as Holzzersetzer they are not of economic importance.

Swell

• A. Bollmann, A. Gminder, P. Reil: List of Figures major European fungi. 4th Edition, generic CD, Black Forest Mushroom Teaching Show, Hornberg 2007, ISSN 0932 - 920X
• Heinrich Dörfelt, G. Jetschke: Dictionary of mycology. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg - Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9