HYPOXYLON CONGESTUM BERK. & BROOME
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 congestum Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 120. 1873; non (Hino & Katumoto) Ahmad, 1978.
º Kretzschmaria congesta (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Syll. Fung. II, p. xxix. 1883.
SRI LANKA: 7.1868, Thwaite, G.H.K. 637, corticated wood (K, HOLOTYPE of H. congestum).
The type material is sterile. The spores illustrated by Berkeley on the paper card where the stromata are attached are from a contaminant. They were found on the surface of the stromata.
