New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Ascomycetes of New Zealand 8. Xylaria

JACK D. ROGERS

Department of Plant Pathology
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington 99164
United States of America

GARY J. SAMUELS*

Plant Diseases Division, DSIR
Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract A floristic monograph of the genus Xylaria (Fungi, Ascomycetes) in New Zealand is presented. Nineteen taxa are recorded including one new species, X. wellingtonensis; two new varieties, X. luteostromata var. macrospora and X. theissenii var. macrospora; and two unnamed taxa related to X. filiformis. Cultural characteristics and ana- morphs are described for most of the taxa. Most species of New Zealand Xylaria differ, often subtly, from the same species found elsewhere. These differences are recorded or discussed in the notes following formal descriptions of taxa.

Keywords taxonomy; fungi; ascomycetes; Xylaria; New Zealand

Received 17 December 1985; accepted 2 April 1986
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1986, Vol. 24: 615-650
0028-825X/86/2404-0615$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1986

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