HYPOXYLON ACERIS (COOKE & ELLIS) SACC.
This name does not belong to Ascovirgaria, Biscogniauxia, Creosphaeria, Daldinia, Discoxylaria, Entoleuca, Hypoxylon, Jumillera, Kretzschmaria, Kretzschmariella, Nemania, Stilbohypoxylon, Vivantia, or Whalleya.(The accepted or suggested disposition is indicated by an asterisk (*), if there is any.)
Hypoxylon aceris (Cooke & Ellis) Sacc., Syll. Fung. I, p. 373. 1882.
º Melogramma aceris Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 7: 8. 1878.
U.S.A.: New Jersey, Newfield, 14.1.1878, Ellis, J.B. 3554, branches of Acer, as Melogramma aceris (NY).
= Botryosphaeria fuliginosa (Moug. & Nestl.) Ellis & Everh., N. Amer. Pyren., p. 546. 1892. Fide Ellis and Everhart (1892).
= * Botryosphaeria quercuum (Schwein.: Fr.) Sacc. Fide von Arx and Müller (1954).
Both Sphaeria quercuum Schwein.: Fr. [º Botryosphaeria quercuum] and Melogramma aceris were synonymized with Botryosphaeria fuliginosa by Ellis and Everhart (1892); this was also accepted by Laflamme (1977). Ellis' authentic material at NY contains no ascomycetes, only two sphaeropsidaceous fungi.
