Wooden clubs
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Antler-shaped wooden club ( Xylaria hypoxylon ) |
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The wooden clubs ( Xylaria ) are a genus of tubular mushrooms from the subdivision Pezizomycotina .
features
The types of wooden clubs form upright, coarse, club-like or coral-like branched and mostly stalked stromata (collective fruiting bodies), i. H. Fruit body-like formations of the vegetative mycelium, in which the actual fruit bodies, dark-walled perithecia, are sunk. Before the development of the fruiting bodies, the stomata are covered with white conidia spores , which means that immature fruiting bodies are covered with white dust and ripe fruiting bodies are black. The asci contain eight spores, the ascospores are ellipsoidal-spindle-shaped to bean-shaped, black and have a white germinal furrow.
ecology
The wooden clubs are saprobionts , most species inhabit wood, some also other plant remains, animal droppings or soil.
Types (selection)
The genus contains around 100 species worldwide, most of which are found in the tropics. European species are:
- Beech fruit peel wooden leg ( Xylaria carpophila )
- Finger wooden club ( Xylaria digita )
- Threaded wooden club ( Xylaria fiiliformis )
- Small-pore wooden club ( Xylaria guepini )
- Antler-shaped wooden club ( Xylaria hypoxylon )
- Long-handled maple club ( Xylaria longipes )
- Multiplex wooden club ( Xylaria multiplex )
- Hawthorn fruit club ( Xylaria oxyacanthae )
- Diverse wooden club ( Xylaria polymorpha )
meaning
The wooden clubs are out of the question as edible mushrooms, as wood decomposers they are of no economic importance.
swell
- A. Bollmann, A. Gminder, P. Reil: List of illustrations of large European mushrooms. 4th edition, genre CD, Black Forest mushroom teaching show, Hornberg 2007, ISSN 0932-920X
- Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of mycology. 2nd Edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 .
