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Annulohypoxylon
Sign in to saveAnnulohypoxylon, sometimes called cramp balls, is a genus of fungi in the family Xylariaceae. The 27 species in the genus have a collectively widespread distribution.
Species
Cramp Balls
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderXylariales
- FamilyHypoxylaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 64
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Hypoxylaceae
- Collections
- F, US, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), ILLS, NY, WSP
- Recorded in
- United States, French Polynesia, Brasil, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Xylariaceae
- Image
- Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum 59204.jpg
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- Category:Annulohypoxylon
- taxon name
- Annulohypoxylon
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- Annulohypoxylon
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Y.M.Ju, J.D.Rogers & H.M.Hsieh
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Annulohypoxylon, sometimes called cramp balls, is a genus of fungi in the family Xylariaceae. The 27 species in the genus have a collectively widespread distribution.
The genus Annulohypoxylon was created in 2005 and contains species formerly placed in the closely related genus Hypoxylon (it is equivalent to Hypoxylon section Annulata sensu). Fossils of Annulohypoxylon have been found in 12 million year old rocks from central England.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Annulohypoxylon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.