HYPOXYLON NUCITENA BERK. & M. A. CURTIS
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 nucitena Berk. & M. A. Curtis apud Berk., Grevillea 4: 52. 1875.
º Melanomma nucitena (Berk. & M. A. Curtis) Sacc., Syll. Fung. II, p. 103. 1883.
U.S.A.: Pennsylvania, Michener 1614 [= 4151], old hickory nuts, as Sphaeria nucitena Berk. & M. A. Curtis, ined. (FH, ISOTYPE of H. nucitena).
A loculoascomycete. Hypoxylon nucitena, along with Sphaeria caryophaga Schwein., was listed as a synonym of Trematosphaeria nuclearia (De Not.) Sacc. by Ellis and Everhart (1892). Sphaeria caryophaga is the earliest name for this nut-inhabiting fungus. Farr et al. (1989) accepted it as Melanomma caryophagum (Schwein.) Fairm.
