anamorph_shape_tapering
attenuated
first of filiform, white, upright sterile synnemata 1-3 mm high arising either directly from the wood or from a black bulbous base, gradually covered by a thick olivaceous grey fertile layer and reaching a diameter of 0.25-0.5 mm; conidiophores dull olivaceous grey, 4-5 µm diam., in palisadic arrangement, sparingly ramified; conidiogenous cells terminal, cylindrical, light grey in 3% KoH, 20- 34 × 3.5-4 µm, flexuous, frequently with a transverse septum, bearing terminal and scattered lateral secession scars; conidia produced holoblastically in sympodial sequence, hyaline, olivaceous grey in mass, 7-9 × 2.5-3.5 µm (n = 30), ellipsoid to faintly clavate, attenuated at base and slightly truncate
Xylaria melitensis
Xylaria melitensis