Xylaria grammica (Mont.) Fr.

Xylaria grammica (Mont.) Fr. View in CoL , Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. (Ser. 3) 1: 128 (1851)

Occurs in small troops, rare, annual, odour and taste not distinct and inedible. Stromata initially dull-black, long and smooth with smoky-white spore deposits. It becomes brown, cylindric to fusoid, elongated, smooth to warty, longitudinal striations, round to obtuse apex, fertile head into blackish-brown to dull-brown, short stem deeply embedded in the bark with short rooting base, occasionally branched at the tip and white hard flesh on maturity. Papillate ostiole and stromata measures 20-50 mm × 2-4 mm. Sub-spherical perithecia, black, embedded in the fertile head, arranged as a dense layer below the surface and measure 0.1-0.2 mm diameter. Asci long stipitate, cylindrical, 8-spored and measure 40-60 × 3.5-4.5 μm. Ellipsoidal ascospores, uniseriate, brown, aseptate and measure 4-5 × 2-3 μm.

Substrate and distribution

On the dead attached bark of Eucalyptus tereticornis in Konaje, Mangalore, Karnataka, India (July-September) (Sharathchandra, 2020) ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 ).