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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Daldinia childiae. Daldinia childiae

Synonyms

Hypoxylon simile
Daldinia concentrica

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

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Owner: Herb. PDD

Caption: Fig. 2881. Hypoxylon simile.
 
Description: Stromata: Stromata spherical; 5-50 mm broad; 8-40 mm thick; perithecia inconspicuous; ostioles lower than or more or less equal to stromatal surface, or finely papillate; stromatal surface dull rusty-brown, cinnamon to sienna; granules immediately below stromatal surface rust to orange, or red brown; KOH-extractable pigments rust, deep yellow-brown to orange, or yellowish-green; tissue between perithecia pithy. Tissue below perithecia conspicuous, comprising concentric rings of alternate dark and pale zones; pale zone nongelatinous, solid and pithy when dry.
Perithecia: Perithecia tubular; 0.5-0.6 mm diam.; 1-1.2 mm high.
Asci: Amyloid ring broader than high.
Ascospores: Ascospores 13.5-15.5 µm long; 6-8 µm wide; brown, or pale brown; 0-septate; in side view inequilateral, flattened on one side, not curved; in face view fusoid, or elliptic; ends narrowly rounded. Germ slit straight, spore-length; on concave, curved side of spore. Perispore dehiscent in 10% KOH; smooth or with indistinct transverse thickenings.

Article: (1924). Mycological notes, no. 72. Mycological Writings 7: 1269-1300 Cincinnati:.
Description: Globose, black, about an inch in diameter, surface smooth, black, the ostioles not protruding nor visible to the eye. Perithecia broad, elongate, contiguous, forming a peripheral layer. Context brown, carbonous, not at all zoned. This is similar to Hypoxylon fissum (Vol. 7, page 1121, Fig. 2141). Same size, perithecia, context and spores; but this has no sign of a thick reddish conidial layer found on the American plant. It may however be the same, but we would not be justified in so referring especially as long as each is known from each country from a single collection. At any rate both are very rare in their respective countries.