Hypoxylon Bull., Histoire des champignons de la France. I: 168 (1791)

 Index Fungorum number: IF 2456; MycoBank number: MB 2456; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02980; 232 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 95 species with sequence data.

Type species – Hypoxylon fragiforme (Pers.) J. Kickx f.

Notes – Hypoxylon is an extensively studied, species rich genus with more than 200 taxa, but with more than 1000 epithets (Kuhnert et al. 2014, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a). Miller (1961) followed stromatal and ascospore morphology for species delimitation and Ju & Rogers (1996) widely used morphology of asexual morph and stromatal pigments. Currently, the genus has further been restricted with a modern phylogenetic concept based on molecular data. Hypoxylon species are widely distributed and mainly inhabit dead wood as saprobes (Ju & Rogers 1996, Wendt et al. 2018). Some Hypoxylon species occur as endophytes and facultative parasites on diseased hosts (Ju & Rogers 1996, Kuhnert et al. 2014). Many secondary metabolites have been investigated from Hypoxylon species (Helaly et al. 2018).

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