Xylaria arbuscula Sacc. Michelia

Xylaria arbuscula Sacc. Michelia View in CoL 1: 249. 1878

Occurs in small troops, annual, rare, odour and taste are not distinct and inedible. Initially stromata attain long, smooth, whip-like, dull-black with smoky-white spore deposits. It becomes elongated, black, cylindric to fusoid, warty, fertile head, tapering at the tip, blackish short or long sterile stem embedded in wood with small rooting base, cylindric-fusoid fertile stromata and white hard flesh on maturity. Papillate ostiole and stromata measures 10-50 mm × 1-2 mm. Black perithecia, sub-spherical, embedded in the fertile head, arranged as monolayer below the surface and measures 0.5-0.6 mm diameter. Asci cylindrical, stipitate, long, 8-spored and measure 50-70 × 5-6 μm. Ascospores brown, uniseriate, ellipsoidal, aseptate and measure 10-15 × 5-6 μm.

Substrate and distribution

Grown on the dead bark of Pongamia pinnata in Assaigoli village near Konaje, Mangalore, Karnataka, India (June-September) (Sridhar, 2020) ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ).