Daldinia loculata (Lév.) Sacc.

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NOTES

Daldinia grandis and D. loculata could be considered as varieties of the same species because they differ from each other solely in the ascospore size ranges. In addition, they are mainly distributed in western North America.

As already noted by Petrini and Müller (1986), Daldinia loculata sensu Child (1932) and its type material are different. Daldinia cudonia is here used as the equivalent of Child's D. loculata which was characterized by Child (1932) as having slenderly stipitate stromata. The type of D. loculata, in fact, is the same as Child's D. occidentalis, a taxon with sessile or subsessile stromata. Under D. loculata, Child (1932) also listed "Daldinia intermedia Lloyd", a herbarium name used by C. G. Lloyd, as a synonym. The type to which this name is attached is conspecific with D. childiae. It is puzzling as to how Child (1932) adopted her concept of D. loculata, especially after Lloyd (1919, p. 901) had commented that "the type at Paris has no stipe at all".