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Benefactors' Lecture Thoughts and musings on tropical Xylariaceae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2001

Jack D. ROGERS
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University. Pullman, Washington 99164-6430, USA. E-mail: rogers@wsu.edu

Abstract

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The following topics are addressed: the interfaces of the Xylariaceae with related groups and the ‘essence of xylariaceousness’; speciation of Xylariaceae in the tropics; the distribution of Xylariaceae in the tropics; xylariaceous fungi categorized into ecological groups based on substrate type and timing of colonization and on modes of water conservation; xylariaceous fungi as latent pathogens and endophytes; novel morphological features of xylariaceous fungi and their roles under tropical conditions.

Type
Editorial
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 2000

Footnotes

This British Mycological Society's Benefactors' Lecture was presented at Liverpool John Moores University on 25 April 2000 on the occasion of the Society's symposium on Tropical Mycology.