Family: Xylariaceae

Fungi:> Ascomycota:> Ascomycetes:> Sordariomycetidae:> Xylariales:> Xylariaceae:> Daldinia, Hypoxylon, Xylaria.

This family includes a number of genera common on dead wood. The perithecia and stromata are typically dark in coloured. With black spores

Genus: Daldinia

Daldinia childiae

Daldinia novae-zelandiae

Genus: Hypoxylon

Annulohypoxylon areolatum

Hypoxylon howeanum

Genus: Xylaria

Xylaria cubensis

Xylaria hypoxylon

Xylaria castorea