On the Xylaria in scrub jungles of southwest India Author Syed, Tahir Author Sharathchandra, Kodandoor Author Sridhar, Kandikere R text Species 2023 e 9 s 1009 2023-01-25 24 73 1 9 https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e9s1009 journal article 309769 10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e9s1009 479d5400-2342-4bae-82e5-8b8e3c34b744 2319-5754 15391084 Xylaria minuta Panwar, Indian Phytopath. 27( 1 ): 110 (1974) Occurs solitarily, annual, frequent, taste and odour not distinctive and inedible. Erect stromata, slightly bent, measure 5-25 u 2 mm wide at the broadest part, black, rough with long hairs and protruded sub-apical with a spiny tip. The apex spiny, fertile part is bulged below the spine. Perithecia sub-spherical, black, embedded in fertile head and measures 0.4-0.8 mm diameter. Asci long, uniseriate, cylindrical, stipitate, 8-spored, black and measure 50-90 × 6-8 μm. Ellipsoid- inequilateral ascospores, dark-brown, aseptate and measure 8-12 × 4.5-6 μm. Substrate and distribution On decaying unidentified fallen twigs in scrub jungles of Konaje, Mangalore , Karnataka , India (July-September) (Sridhar, 2019) ( Figure 4 ).