Xylaria longipes    Nitschke 

common name(s) : Dead Moll's Fingers 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Sordariomycetes/Xylariomycetidae/Xylariales/Xylariaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pyrenomycetideae/Xylariales/Xylariaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Xylosphaera longipes)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Xylaria longipes
photo gallery of Xylaria longipes potential confusions with Xylaria longipes toxicity of Xylaria longipes genus Xylaria  

The fruiting body is club-shaped or spindle-shaped, more or less regular, single, thinner than a finger, warty, tapering at the base, with a long sterile and well formed brown-black stem, black (possibly covered with grey dust in spring).

The flesh is white, tough;

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on stumps and tree trunks of deciduous trees, on sycamores, maple trees.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.5 cm (between 0.25 and 0.75 cm)
  total height approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)

Distinctive features : club-shaped or spindle-shaped fruiting body, single, thinner than a finger, warty, tapering at the base, with a long sterile and well formed brown-black stem; in tufts, mostly on dead maple or sycomore wood

Xylaria longipes is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Xylaria longipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Xylaria longipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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