Hypoxylon bovei
This Hypoxylon species, possibly Hypoxylon bovei, forms such hard resinous crusts on living Antarctic Beech wood in the Barrington Tops National park that for many years we were not even sure it is a fungi The ostioles are surrounded by a black margin, making the whole structure look quite alien and slightly volcanic.These fungi produce their spores in tiny, generally globose, chambers (called perithecia) which are mostly under a couple of millimetres in diameter - often no more than a millimetre.
Many species of flask fungi are black, but a few common species are coloured orange. They are mostly found on wood and dung - but a few grow on other sporocarps, such as mushrooms or polypores! In species where the perithecia grow separately, a piece of wood with a colony of black-fruiting flask fungi looks as though the wood has numerous black pinheads or pimples on it.
Hypoxylon bovei
- Hypoxylon bovei, perhaps, Upper Allyn April 20, 2002 Nothofagus mooreii (Antarctic Beech)
Hypoxylon bovei
- Hypoxylon bovei, perhaps, on Antarctic beech limb, Barraga Swamp, Barrington National Park, NSW, Australia, December, 2
Hypoxylon bovei
- Hypoxylon bovei on cut wood, Upper Allyn Lister Village, March 2010, NSW, Australia. (Fuhrer p321) This black crust fung
Hypoxylon bovei
- Hypoxylon bovei on cut wood, (detail) Upper Allyn Lister Village, March 2010, NSW, Australia. (Fuhrer p321) This black c
