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Hypoxylon

Notes

Large fruiting bodies containing many individual perithecia, usually flattened across the host surface, the perithecia often visible as small mounds across the surface of the fruiting body. Variable in colour, from bright orange or purple, to dull brown or black.
About 25 species have been reported from New Zealand, although the genus is still poorly understood here. Only those listed below are treated in the Virtual Mycota.

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 Hypoxylon anthochroum
 Hypoxylon aucklandiae
 Hypoxylon carneum
 Hypoxylon chathamense
 Hypoxylon cinnabarinum  
 Hypoxylon dingleyae
 Hypoxylon howeanum  
 Hypoxylon hughesii  
 Hypoxylon nothofagicola  
 Hypoxylon perforatum
 Hypoxylon placentiforme
 Hypoxylon subcorticeum
 Hypoxylon subcrocopeplum
 Hypoxylon subrutiloides
 Hypoxylon torrendii