Hypoxylon symphyon A. Möller

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

NOTES

Möller's type at S yielded no ascospores. However, the ascospore size range that Möller (1901) gave in the protologue matches well that from other collections that we have examined.

Hypoxylon symphyon differs from H. polyporum in having a rougher stromatal surface, in frequently not having apparent KOH-extractable pigments, in having darker ascospores which are more or less irregular in shape, and in having the germ slit more frequently on the flattened side of ascospores. Hypoxylon nicaraguense differs from H. symphyon in having larger ascospores, in having a nearly spore-length germ slit, and in having the germ slit on the convex side of ascospores.