Monsoon 2011| Fungi from Talacauvery| 29Aug11AR02

[raghu ananth]

Monsoon 2011| Fungi from Talacauvery| 29Aug11AR02

Habitat: on an erect tree bark, probably dead portion.

// Stephen King's horror bank!

27 Jul 2011

Talacauvery, Coorg

Regards

raghu

[Inderjeet Sethi]

This looks like Xylaria sp. (Pyrenomycetes). Did you notice the size of the fruiting bodies and any other features.

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[raghu ananth]

Size of the fruiting body -upto 6cms, granite black color, tiny white spots - iridescent. 

I think the fruit bodies are  flask-shaped.

Abundance - 30 nos. 

Dead stump picture taken from 9 meters distant. 

Thick vegetation, darkness, slope/elevation & the leeches prevented us reaching the tree. So no closeup picture.

It appears, these fungi closely relates to Dead Man's Fingers fungus or the Candle-snuff Fungus. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylaria

// In Bhagamandala, we colligated this black fungi to black leech sticks, very well disguised in the darkness of the tree bark. Add to it the dark woods behind. Imagine- we go close to the tree, the leech stick come alive &  rain on us...

Thanks a lot for the Id help!

Regards

Raghu

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[J.M. Garg]

Appears close to images at Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.

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