NUMMULARIA GIGAS W. PHILLIPS & PLOWR.

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.)

Nummularia gigas W. Phillips & Plowr., Grevillea 8: 106. 1880.

º Camarops tubulina (Albertini & Schwein.: Fr.) Shear var. gigas (W. Phillips & Plowr.) Shear, Mycologia 30: 586. 1938.

Nannfeldt (1972) mentioned this fungus having a germ pore on one end of the ascospores. Thus, it does not belong to the Xylariaceae. He stated that "the spore characters point towards the heterogeneous assemblage still known as Anthostoma."

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